Respected Quotes

#1. There's only one thing a bully respected: bigger bully.

Lisa Kleypas

#2. I have met a few people, who are so respected in the fashion industry and all around the world, and are still very humble. People who have it all but act like they only just started, it's beautiful. This is what I want to be.

Benjamin Clementine

#3. Peace to the spirits of my honored parents, respected be their remains, and immortalized their virtues! may time, while it moulders their frail relicks to dust, commit to tradition the record of their goodness...

Frances Burney

#4. When you live in an environment where you aren't allowed to be fully who you are, you aren't taken seriously, and you aren't respected. What that actually does to a person's confidence and psyche is really fascinating to me.

Andre Holland

#5. Arson is a respected profession among certain subcultures in Jersey, and the good ones don't get caught. The good ones channel lightning and mysterious acts of spontaneous combustion.

Janet Evanovich

#6. We each have two human needs: To learn and grow & to be respected, accepted and loved the way you are. Even though feedback facilitates learning and growth, it conflicts with our need to feel respected. This is a key reason we resist feedback.

Sheila Heen

#7. I acknowledge that Hulu's easy accessibility probably keeps some people from pirating. But a respected industry analyst says less than 5% of TV content is being stolen today.

Steven Levitan

#8. I don't know how 'X Factor' works. I was only there as a guest judge for a day. But I watched 'The Voice' a lot; I respected how it came across on TV, and I love the freedom we get as coaches to do what we want.

Rita Ora

#9. The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.

James Thurber

#10. And the greatest lesson that mom ever taught me though was this one. She told me there would be times in your life when you have to choose between being loved and being respected. Now she said to always pick being respected.

Chris Christie

#11. If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected; if not, they will be despised.

Thomas Paine

#12. He so respected his wife, and at times so feared her, that he actually, in fact, loved her

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#13. Nobody has ever respected me and done things for me and loved me. So when Howard (former husband J. Howard Marshall II) came along, it was a blessing. He is the only person in my life who does not care about what other people say about me. He truly loves me and I love him for it.

Anna Nicole Smith

#14. Francois Hollande is the president of the republic, he must be respected. I want to wish him good luck in the midst of these tests.

Nicolas Sarkozy

#15. The soldier in the portrait had been a respected and admired officer...
The man he had become was fighting a different battle now. He had his demons, just as she had her ghosts.

Marguerite Kaye

#16. One can be respected with the truth in Hollywood just as much as anywhere else you know or else I wouldn't have had a career.

Bette Davis

#17. I have always accepted and respected all other schools of architecture, from the chill and elemental structures of Mies van der Rohe to the imagination and delirium of Gaudi. I must design what pleases me in a way that is naturally linked to my roots and the country of my origin.

Oscar Niemeyer

#18. There is a science to managing high tech businesses, and it needs to be respected. One of them is that in technology businesses, leadership is temporary. It's constantly recycling. So the asset has limited lifetime.

Eric Schmidt

#19. Texas, to be respected must be polite. Santa Anna living, can be of incalculable benefit to Texas; Santa Anna dead, would just be another dead Mexican.

Sam Houston

#20. A nation can be no stronger abroad than she is at home. Only an America which practices what it preaches about equal rights and social justice will be respected by those whose choice affects our future.

John F. Kennedy

#21. Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.

Charles Lamb

#22. In a world where masculinity is respected and femininity is regularly dismissed, it takes an enormous amount of strength and confidence for any person, whether female- or male-bodied, to embrace their feminine self.

Julia Serano

#23. Men make their own happiness, and a man may be respected even though only a slave.

G.A. Henty

#24. The highly respected macroeconomist Jeffrey Sachs has recently made an impassioned and well-argued case in his book The Price of Civilization that mindfulness needs to be at the heart of any attempt to resolve the major problems we face as a country and, by implication, as a world.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#25. Growing up, the ukulele was always a respected instrument. It's a big part of our culture. It wasn't until I started traveling outside of Hawaii that I realized people didn't really consider the ukulele to be a real instrument.

Jake Shimabukuro

#26. Love is not, anywhere, taken seriously. It's not respected. It's the one thing in the world everyone wants, but for some reason people are obliged to pretend that love is trifling and foolish.

Carol Shields

#27. He that respects not is not respected.

George Herbert

#28. If our courts lose their authority and their rulings are no longer respected, there will be no one left to resolve the divisive issues that can rip the social fabric apart ... The courts are a safety valve without which no democratic society can survive.

Rose Bird

#29. We're always trying to break the boundaries of what a 'denim brand' can be, and we want to be respected for it.

Renzo Rosso

#30. The only thing that I really want to do is just be respected in the music industry ... And whether that means selling albums or winning Grammys or people just liking your music, thats what I really want to do.

Kris Allen

#31. When you look at some of the most respected actors there are and the crap that they're in ... it didn't used to be that way.

Jason Patric

#32. Novelas are very respected in the Latin world.

Jaime Camil

#33. All jobs must be respected, because they are being done unto God.

Sunday Adelaja

#34. 'Musician' is not a very respected title. I'm not a musician.

Lydia Lunch

#35. How is it [, then] that the leaders of our society have seen fit to try to eliminate this one very important means of learning and self-discovery, this means which has been used, respected, and honored for thousands of years, in every human culture of which we have a record?

Alexander Shulgin

#36. When I was 9, we moved to Osseo, Wis., where we owned a couple of hundred acres. My father was well respected in town.

Diane Hendricks

#37. If you want to be respected, do something respectful!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#38. If we free the people of Iraq, we will be respected in the Arab world ... and I think we will be respected around the world.

William Kristol

#39. You know, back in the old days adults were respected because of how wise they were, and people went to them to help settle disputes. Nowadays it's a whole different world, and half the time I wonder if grown-ups should really be in charge.

Jeff Kinney

#40. In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable.

Lord Chesterfield

#41. It was come as you are when visiting my blog, CiCI's Garden -otherwise what would be the point? Readers were welcomed to a virtual place where emotions were respected and affirmed, and encouragement was offered to those who longed to know that wounded hearts can heal - even if it takes a lifetime.

EsthersChild

#42. The Norse myths are the myths of a chilly place, with long, long winter nights and endless summer days, myths of a people who did not entirely trust or even like their gods, although they respected and feared them.

Neil Gaiman

#43. Obviously, that off-the-ice battle I went through, plus injuries I came back from, I always felt the fans are really knowledgeable there and respected and appreciated guys that gave whatever they had and guys that fought through things.

Saku Koivu

#44. True marriage requires you to love your spouse even when you don't feel loved and respected.

Marita Kinney

#45. The countries who do the best in international comparisons, whether it's Finland or Japan, Denmark or Singapore, do well because they have professional teachers who are respected, and they also have family and community which support learning.

Howard Gardner

#46. The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants.

Jack Kevorkian

#47. But it becomes disrespectful when the artist's process is not respected.

Talib Kweli

#48. He was born-again, a state I did not share but respected.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#49. Not only am I constantly seeking better performance but also to be a better person, to be respected.

Yani Tseng

#50. The good thing about Dennis [ Mathis] is, even though he's a white, he respected that I was doing something quirky with my English. He loved it when I would mix up the Americanisms and say, "That's water over the dam."

Sandra Cisneros

#51. I consider myself fortunate that in my home, acting or the creative arts were a good option. This was a respected tour of duty in my family. Acting wasn't something that was left to tragic bohemians. But we weren't a family that obsessed on cinema.

Sean Penn

#52. This is a very highly charged investigation. People are very interested in this, and we've got a prosecutor, a very well respected prosecutor who's been looking at this issue, this investigation for a long time.

Alberto Gonzales

#53. Water was something he loved, something he respected. He understood its beauty and its dangers. He talked about swimming as if it were a way of life.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#54. We didn't always get on, you know that, but ... yes. We respected each other; that counts for a lot. And we liked each other, in spite of everything. Yes,

Diana Gabaldon

#55. Were crimes respected? Well, yes. In a sense they were. They gave employment, do you see, to a vast number of people -- policemen, judges, lawyers and such like, who would otherwise have had no place in society.

Frank Baker

#56. I was bitterly resentful, but somehow greatly relieved. And I respected him enormously for his clarity of thought, his obvious caring, and his unwillingness to equivocate in delivering bad news.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#57. 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

#58. Children have very little voice, and the coroner's inquest is about Luke's voice, and making sure Luke is heard and respected and honoured. I don't want him to have died in vain.

Rosie Batty

#59. A good huntress respected her partners instincts, even if he was socially ignorant.

Ann Aguirre

#60. There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.

Ted Koppel

#61. Your suffering needs to be respected. Don't try to ignore the hurt, because it is real. Just let the hurt soften you instead of hardening you. Let the hurt open you instead of closing you. Let the hurt send you looking for those who will accept you instead of hiding from those who reject you.

Bryant McGill

#62. DIGNITY OF LABOR indicates that all types of jobs are respected equally.

Sunday Adelaja

#63. What the hell is that look for? You finally grow a conscious? (Syn)
No, but we can't go around assassinating respected officials. (Nykyrian)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#64. Anytime that another artist or a critic that is well-respected says something nice about you, you're always thankful and hope that you can live up to that.

Chris Stapleton

#65. When things are going well, be mindful of adversityWhen prosperous, be mindful of povertyWhen loved, be mindful of thoughtfulnessWhen respected, be mindful of humility

Gautama Buddha

#66. I have always believed that I should have had no difficulty in causing my rights to be respected.

Eli Whitney

#67. The audience too should be respected by being presented with a film as they remember it, and for those who have not seen it, as it was intended to be seen. Anything less is a degradation of the film and its audience.

George Stevens

#68. Unless he'd missed is guess, Miss Joanna Robbins possessed the soul of a missionary. How that had come to be when she'd been raised by an outlaw and his gang, Crockett couldn't fathom. Yet he sensed her passion. Respected it. He'd not belittle her dream.

Karen Witemeyer

#69. A man or woman can be known and respected for good taste, regardless of job or income level, if they make good choices in clothes, have good table manners, are kind and organize their home to look warm, welcoming, clean, and appropriate to their station in life.

Letitia Baldrige

#70. Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.

Lech Walesa

#71. My parents were terrific - mother was a church organist and my father was probably the most respected person in our church outside of the minister and sometimes maybe that much. The neighbors all called him - a gentleman.

Jane Pauley

#72. All remained loyal to him, not because they always agreed with him, but because the regent listened to and respected different opinions.

Nelson Mandela

#73. At the end of the day, if I can say that I had a career where I was able to play all different kinds of characters and I'm known as someone who is well-respected for my approach to the craft, that would be a beautiful life.

Adepero Oduye

#74. When I had a kid and I went through my drama and situation, I respected my father more because it kinda made me understand what he went through with me.

French Montana

#75. You cannot just quote from history and above all you cannot take it out of context, in however humorous a fashion . On the contrary history has a natural continuity which must be respected

Gottfried Bohm

#76. The medics were the most popular, respected, and appreciated men in the company. Their weapons were first-aid kits, their place on the line was wherever a man called out that he was wounded.

Stephen E. Ambrose

#77. Women are far and away the bigger consumers of fiction than men, but men are still far and away the more reviewed, the more critically esteemed, the more respected. That can get frustrating.

Jennifer Weiner

#78. The Greek nation has to be respected. I am not in the camp of those who openly want to humiliate Greece.

Jean-Claude Juncker

#79. Nor did the Americans find it necessary to wage a ruthless campaign. As has been mentioned previously, both sides respected

Stephen E. Ambrose

#80. I would rather see the United States respected than loved by other nations.

Henry Cabot Lodge

#81. I think that the justices were totally answering the way that they should. I think that the senators, as best I could tell, for the most part, Democrat and Republican, respected that.

Fred Thompson

#82. Moderates want their faith respected. They don't want faith itself criticized, and yet faith itself is what is bringing us all this - this lunacy.

Sam Harris

#83. It would hurt my feelings if I respected your opinions.

Simon Cowell

#84. In coming to that agreement, my party had a clear philosophy throughout. In Northern Ireland, we should have institutions that respected the differences of the people and that gave no victory to either side.

John Hume

#85. I'm not anti-Jew. Jews are respected by everyone, like all human beings, and I respect them very much.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#86. All of us, as human beings, seek to be respected. Even those who do not respect others have a deep seated desire to be respected.

Abhishek Ratna

#87. My dream is to see India as a nation of well-looked-after and respected sportspeople in all fields.

Saina Nehwal

#88. I want to make something that's respectful and respected. And I think you can make something for women that is respected on television.

Callie Khouri

#89. There are a lot of guys who are respected but not liked.

Ron Santo

#90. You can only ask to be respected if you respect yourself.

Kelli O'Hara

#91. You are respected till you have something needed by them or something they are jealous of ...

Ranu Das

#92. Why administrators are respected and schoolteachers are not: An administrator is paid a lot for doing very little, while a teacher is paid very little for doing a lot.

Edward Abbey

#93. Apple chief executive Tim Cook is such a respected figure that it's easy to overlook the basic problem with his argument about encryption: Cook is asserting that a private company and the interests of its customers should prevail over the public's interest as expressed by our courts.

David Ignatius

#94. I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.

Jack Ma

#95. I personally apologize to any person who felt anything less than respected and valued by myself.

Kevin Shelley

#96. I don't want to be the actor who's followed by paparazzi, you know? I would like to just do good work and have that work be respected and acknowledged.

Randall Park

#97. I've been so lucky - I worked with Jason Reitman twice, who has always been a really strong advocate for my voice, and has always really respected the scripts that I've brought him and is just the coolest.

Diablo Cody

#98. I felt deeply loved, highly respected by my colleagues and everybody in the world of motorsport.

Maria De Villota

#99. A female's body should be looked at and respected as something divine. At least, that was the original thought, but time marches on, and the sanctity of the sacred body is no longer sacred.

Lionel Suggs

#100. I'll never be the biggest kind of star; I'll be like Bob Duvall, respected as an actor but a lot of people can't identify the face. I don't have the personality of a big star, or the looks of a Mel Gibson or a Paul Newman, or the style of a George C. Scott.

John Malkovich