Respect Me Quotes

#1. People respect me; I respect them. I'll never change. I realize who I am.

Michael Vick

#2. I know," I said. "You already don't respect me because you saw me naked.

Lee Child

#3. There are a lot of people in this country who really like my writing. And a lot of writers respect me. But the so-called establishment? They hate me.

Hubert Selby Jr.

#4. There's one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and - I'm going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself - I think most respect me.

Joe Biden

#5. I'm looking at working with people I get on with, that respect me, that don't just see me as a piece of ass. Which I have experienced as well. I've nearly walked off very big films before, and I would, because I don't want that in my life. I want to enjoy the work I do.

Gemma Arterton

#6. How can you not respect somebody like me? If you don't respect me, it's because you got hatin' all over you. If you don't like me, you don't like yourself.

Keyshawn Johnson

#7. You don't respect me," said Dora, her voice trembling.
"Of course I don't respect you," said Paul. "Have I any reason to? I'm in love with you, unfortunately, that's all."
"Well, it's unfortunate for me too," said Dora, starting to cry.

Iris Murdoch

#8. I need to find people who I respect so I can respect them, and they'll like being respected so they'll respect me, and that's like a marriage.

Judd Apatow

#9. I have tried to live my life so that my family would love me and my friends respect me. The others can do whatever the hell they please.

John Wayne

#10. I'm not into screamo music, but I respect it. It's hard to do, to keep your voice and stuff like that. It's hard to do, so I respect the music. It's just not my favorite to listen to. That's all I want. I just want people to respect me as an artist.

Justin Bieber

#11. When I am singing, I believe that if I respect the public, then they will respect me, and I know it. It's noticeable.

Selena

#12. I prefer to believe that people are good and honest and respect me enough to tell me the truth. It's not easy to find those people all the time, but they're out there.

Ellen DeGeneres

#13. Respect me, or put me to death.

Malcolm X

#14. When a man carries a gun all the time, the respect he thinks he's getting might really be fear. So I don't carry a gun because I don't want the people of Mayberry to fear a gun. I'd rather they respect me.

Andy Griffith

#15. I don't want to just sell out shows to young girls who like my movie franchise. I want to sell tickets because people respect me.

Ansel Elgort

#16. I get more out of life just being myself, by just being a human being. Not by being a rock star, not by being whatever. Sometimes I act like a jerk, but I think people respect me for being myself. That's the ultimate thing about the Smashing Pumpkins.

Billy Corgan

#17. I get the feeling people respect me and that there is affection for me. That makes me happy.

Andres Iniesta

#18. I consider those persons to be my students who come and meditate with me on a regular basis, who, in spite of the hardships and difficulties on the path of knowledge, still continue to try, and who respect me as I respect them.

Frederick Lenz

#19. My peers accept me and respect me, and that's enough.

Neil Diamond

#20. I want you to hear how I can tell stories. I want you to hear how I can make these records about these females and make them feel every way I can. I want you to feel my magic. I want you to respect me and my artistry.

Kirko Bangz

#21. The streets respect me because I kept it real with me. You gotta be real with yourself, and the streets recognize game.

Mary J. Blige

#22. "'Come on, guys, I'm the leader of a whole movie ... !' I tell when I want people to fear and respect me. Not wildly effective."

Joss Whedon

#23. Yea I may come across as blunt, but I will say the truth even if its bitter, that's just me. You either hate me for it or respect me for it.

Tilicia Haridat

#24. Can you accept me, can you love me? Without conditions ? Can you nurture me, can you respect me? Without conditions ? Will you embrace me as my own unique autistic self?

Tina J. Richardson

#25. Nowadays I just don't care; I've taken the Frank Zappa stance. I am who I am! Some love me, some loathe me, some respect me and some despise me. But after all that's been, I still love the insane! As they're exciting, dangerous and highly explosive! For me mad dogs are gentlemen.

Stephen Richards

#26. As long as you respect me and treat me like the queen that I am, in return I will treat you like the

MIZZ KIKI

#27. I had many clients who didn't respect me, probably because of how they were raised. We're all the walking wounded.

Annie Sprinkle

#28. I don't care if they respect me so long as they fear me.

Caligula

#29. I'm like President Bush. You may not like me, you may not respect me, but you voted me in.

Shaquille O'Neal

#30. As mayor, I used to always feel the important thing is that people respect me, not love me - but it is really much nicer when they love you, too. I'm going to try to keep it that way.

Rudy Giuliani

#31. They said they respect me, which means, their judgment is crazy.

Morrissey

#32. I feel safe when people threaten me, but I feel threaten, when people respect me, because I understand they want something, but I do not understand what they want.

M.F. Moonzajer

#33. A lot of women I worked with didn't respect their clients. I had some clients who didn't respect me, but still you somehow made it work.

Annie Sprinkle

#34. I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

Jackie Robinson

#35. I'm proud of myself, people love me and respect me, and I like me. I like who I am.

Ellen Greene

#36. I look at my career and I feel I have the potential to maybe mature into a Samuel Jackson-type older cat, and people will still respect me and say 'Yo, Ice-T was wild', into my old age. And why not? I don't necessarily think I'll be rapping in 10 years.

Ice-T

#37. Sullivan, just pick it up."
"My way is more genteel."
"Your way is more tight ass."
"Your respect for me, Sentinel, is astounding."
"I'd respect you more if you took a bite of that dog."
"You don't respect me any."
"Like I said, I'd respect you more. More than none.

Chloe Neill

#38. Whenever I go out, so many people who respect me ask me what to do in a certain situation. A lot of times, I didn't know the answers because sometimes I was going through the same sort of thing. But then later on, I would think of things that people told me.

Patti LaBelle

#39. Respect me. Be proud, and if you love me, a little afraid, because love so often looks like fear. We are alike. We are alike.

Catherynne M Valente

#40. When I play against someone that's new in the league, I make him respect me. They may have heard about me, but now you get to see me actually in front of you. That drives me.

Michael Jordan

#41. I had did so much to Larry [Holmes] in the ring that I made him respect me in the fight.

Michael Spinks

#42. If I cannot retain my moral influence over a man except by occasionally knocking him down, if that is the only basis upon which he will respect me, then for the sake of his soul I have got occasionally to knock him down.

Woodrow Wilson

#43. The reason it has relevance is because I, as a popular Arab personality - the Arab people like me and respect me - thought it was time for me to make an ever so tiny statement about what I thought about this whole thing.

Omar Sharif

#44. I come across famous people all the time. It's the respect factor I appreciate. They respect me, they respect what I've achieved and the manner I've done it. It's street credibility. They know where I'm coming from, they know my reputation.

Lennox Lewis

#45. I think my fans respect me for bein' as truthful and honest as you can be and still be Rap music and not be opinion music. It's still Rap, its still style, flavor, flair, and people just kind of like how I present myself and the things that I do.

Ice Cube

#46. Ric Flair, you put me in this position. You named me the Legend Killer and after Tuesday, you will respect me.

Randy Orton

#47. And even in the hatred of the majority, there's a kind of triumph because I know that, although they'd never admit it, they secretly respect me.

John Osborne

#48. I will not try to convince you to love me, to respect me, to commit to me. I deserve better than that; I AM BETTER THAN THAT ... Goodbye.

Steve Maraboli

#49. I wanna do movies that in ten years time people will respect me for, as an actor. So if I do take two years off or three years off, the next movie I have that comes out you want people to go 'ooh, that's Frankie Muniz's new movie, it's gonna be a good movie cause he's in it.'

Frankie Muniz

#50. I don't have any plans to pursue film acting. It's not my thing anymore, if it ever was. Yes, I do still act sometimes. But when I do, it's with people I know and trust, people who respect me as a person and appreciate what I have to offer.

Mara Wilson

#51. I was horrible at everything I ever tried to do and people respect me. The American Dream has come true!!

Karlheinz Stockhausen

#52. I am what I am.........both as a result of people who respected me and helped me, and of those who did not respect me and treated me badly.

Nelson Mandela

Anthony Sampson

#53. I needed somebody to love me, and the people that I chose were my coaches. I would sacrifice my body to be successful for my coaches because I wanted them to love me, to respect me, to have positive feelings about me.

Steve Largent

#54. It was a good feeling to have a lot of support. A lot of people respect me as a player but also as a person as well.

Kevin Martin

#55. I respect a woman who can respect me when I'm not around.

Mark W. Boyer

#56. I've never swayed from who I am. People have seen me on television, and they know what I'm like and they know what I do and they respect me for what I do. They know that I'm huggy and kissy.

Richard Simmons

#57. It's just that you don't respect me enough to respect what I want. I have to want what you want or it doesn't count or its's no good. Well, I don't want what you want. And I don't see why I have to. I mean, as long as I respect what you want and let you live your life, why do you care?

Jennifer Crusie

#58. I don't think there's anything they can say about me that I haven't said about myself already. And I would be an absolute total liar, and my fans would not respect me, if I said that my life and my marriage are perfect. But we absolutely love each other; we have fun together - it's great.

Mary J. Blige

#59. O: Hey youngman, you should respect me!
Y: Hey oldman, you should understand me!

Toba Beta

#60. New York gave me hell for that 'Purple Swag,' man. They didn't respect me until 'Peso.'

ASAP Rocky

#61. I don't care why they love me, as long as they love me. I think people respect me because they feel like - I'm kind of like Christmas. I come back every year. You can't get rid of me. I just keep coming back.

David Hasselhoff

#62. I said 'Brian, no one is going to respect me as a mother after this.' He said, 'oh no, yes they will, this is a movie, don't worry about it.' But they're not.

Nia Long

#63. Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, "Respect me; I'm a respectable grown-up!" and other times I just want to jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death.

Wendy Wasserstein

#64. You don't have to love me. You don't even have to like me, but you will respect me.

Jose Mourinho

#65. I have a job I'm pretty good at. I am in charge of things. I am on committees. People respect me and take my counsel. I want to be strong and professional, but I resent how hard I have to work to be taken seriously, to receive a fraction of the consideration I might otherwise receive.

Roxane Gay

#66. Damn you! Just ask me to wait and I will, ask me to understand that things will be difficult but that when this period is over, we'll be happy and in love and together. Please stop with the dreaded respect line. I don't want you to respect me. I want you to want me.

Lauren Weisberger

#67. Cutting negative people from my life does not mean I hate them, it simply means I respect me.

Marilyn Monroe

#68. If you don't respect me you're not gonna get that respect back.

David Hasselhoff

#69. Today I will let go of my need for approval and my need to be liked. Instead, I will choose to like and approve of myself. The people who count (including me) will respect me when I'm true to who I really am.

Melody Beattie

#70. If you dont respect me what must you think of yourself?

Cormac McCarthy

#71. Would you respect me if I didn't have this gun? Cause without it, I don't get it, and that's why I carry one.

Phil Collins

#72. I don't care if you're black, white, short, tall, skinny, rich or poor. If you respect me I'll respect you

Adele

#73. I am doing what I am supposed to be doing right now. I smile knowing that I have the most wonderful husband, family, and friends. I work with friends whom I can learn from and whom I respect and who respect me.

Daphne Oz

#74. I just feel like if I do good work, then people should respect me for the work I do.

Scott Caan

#75. You don't have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.

Toni Morrison

#76. I want friends, not admirers. People who respect me for my character and my deeds, not my flattering smile. The circle around me would be much smaller, but what does that matter, as long as they're sincere?

Anne Frank

#77. People from all walks of life and all over the world look at me and know my humble beginnings and know that everything I've done has been through hard work. People respect me as a marketer and brand builder.

Sean Combs

#78. When we believe in our thoughts, when we tell ourselves a story, we suffer. 'My husband doesn't respect me.' 'I should be thinner.' Those are stories. When there's no story, there's no suffering.

Byron Katie

#79. I break an emcee off proper
Yo don't check me,
Ask your Moms and Pops,
Yo they respect me,
But here you stand, tryin' to get yours, but gettin' nothin'
You probably can't spell "Boogie Down" or "Productions"

KRS-One

#80. We put our body and minds and lives on the line for being in that ring for the fans, that's why I respect fighters. Unless they don't respect me then I can't give any respect back.

Nonito Donaire

#81. The respect I have for her has bloomed into this monster that's taken up residence inside of me, made me fall hard for a girl I'll never get.

C.M. Stunich

#82. The gold-digger is the enemy of the honest laborer, whatever checks and compensations there may be. It is not enough to tell me that you worked hard to get your gold. So does the Devil work hard. The way of transgressors may be hard in many respects.

Henry David Thoreau

#83. Show me the manner in which a nation or a community cares for its dead and I will measure with mathematical exactness the tender sympathies of its people, their respect for the laws of the land and their loyalty to high ideals.

William E. Gladstone

#84. The people "placed me in an office of the highest dignity and charged me with the duty of maintaining that dignity and proper respect for the office on the part of my subordinates. . . . By your own conduct you have destroyed your usefulness as a helpful subordinate.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#85. With all due respect to arachnophobes, I love spiders. Some might call me obsessed, but I've been studying spiders and spider silks for many years now and don't see an end in sight. There is simply too much to do.

Cheryl Hayashi

#86. With all due respect, Jacobi, that's a load of bull. It was bad, but I handled it. That's what the job is. I hardly have a scratch on me. So stop treating me like a victim. I'm fully functional and absolutely sane. This is my case and I'm on it. OK? OK?

James Patterson

#87. Some people may regard my views well and show respect to me, and I hope they have not deceived themselves in doing so. Some people think that I am a leader of a movement.

Fethullah Gulen

#88. The sad reality is, it's not just the people I go to school with that are doing it. It's their parents too. Their noses are all turned up at me, like because of my diagnosis; I'm an alien to them. I'm not like their son or daughter so that means I'm not worthy of respect.

Melyssa Winchester

#89. Winning the Indy 500 in 1995 and the Formula 1 championship in 1997 are very special moments for me, and the people in NASCAR show me respect for what I've achieved so far in my career.

Jacques Villeneuve

#90. I couldn't do country, with all due respect to all country music artists. My parents dressed me up with a cowboy hat and we'd go to the rodeo when I was younger and it traumatized me for life.

Chris Colfer

#91. I have a small child, so the idea of getting up at 3 a.m. to train before a day of shooting ... I just don't have it in me, although I have so much respect for people who do.

Amy Adams

#92. For me, public service is an honor, and I have the ultimate respect for the rule of law.

Brian Sandoval

#93. And if you don't underestimate me, I won't underestimate you.

Bob Dylan

#94. My work is not worthy of respect. Why then do you join in it with me?

Nawal El Saadawi

#95. When I was a kid, I got really great advice from someone who is so important to me and someone who I respect so much, and they told me, 'Don't do too many endorsements. Don't throw your name on things; think of your longevity.'

Drew Barrymore

#96. The concepts of truth may differ. But all admit and respect truth. That truth I call God. For sometime I was saying, "God is Truth," but that did not satisfy me. So now I say, "Truth is God."

Mahatma Gandhi

#97. There would be some times where people wouldn't know how to act around me. Does he drink? Can I cuss? What can I do? And then there was other circumstances where it was, I just don't respect what you're trying to do.

LeCrae

#98. It's a great honour to be asked to be the next manager of Manchester United. I am delighted that Sir Alex saw fit to recommend me for the job. I have great respect for everything he has done and for the football club.

David Moyes

#99. It's my world, I demand my respect. Give me your girl or get slapped in your neck.

Big Pun

#100. I myself am opaque, for some reason. Their eyes cannot see me. Yes, that's it: The world is autistic with respect to me.

Anne Nesbet