Top 100 You Want Respect Quotes
#1. If you want respect for your past, it means that you have a problem with your present and even more with your future.
Karl Lagerfeld
#2. If you want respect, you earn it in politics. You don't get it because you are some form of bloody emperor in a toga.
Colm Keaveney
#3. If you want respect, you must take your medicine like a brave aristocrat," he said. "Think of the French nobles who walked to the guillotine, double chins aloft.
Loretta Chase
#4. Understand that you, yourself, are no more than the composite picture of all your thoughts and actions. In your relationships with others, remember the basic and critically important rule: If you want to be loved, be lovable. If you want respect, set a respectable example!
Denis Waitley
#5. He's the type of bloke you would want to have on your side. When you see an Indian side with Ganguly in the line-up, you know it's game on. You don't have to like or dislike him. You have to respect him.
Steve Waugh
#6. If the advice is simply to respect yourself and follow the path that you want to follow, that would be the best advice I could ever pass on.
Stephen Chbosky
#7. Remember, if you keep living your life on your terms,people can mock you all they want, but they'll respect you in the end
Cassidy Calloway
#9. It's the reality: film is a director's medium, and, ultimately, they are the ones that are in charge, and you have to respect that because somebody has to be in charge. But, yeah, you do reach a point where you want to have your voice come out.
Dan Gilroy
#10. I want to know whether you are a person devoted to creating or to exchanging in some respect or other: as a creator you belong tothe free, as an exchanger you are their slave and instrument.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#11. I truly respect the people who are working. If they want an autograph from Patti LaBelle, they are going to get it. I have never separated myself from them. I never think you are better than the next one.
Patti LaBelle
#12. I have a feeling that being in love sometimes means the projection of your desires onto another person. The important thing is that you like the other person, respect the other person and want to raise children with the other person.
Eric Braeden
#13. Every thing's for sale out here. Anything you want. About the only thing you can't buy is my dignity and self-respect, cause those were the first to go. And I gave them away for free. - excerpt from: freefalling
Darlenne Susan Girard
#14. Instead of buying something for you that you want I give you something that is mine, truly mine. A gift, a sign of respect for the person I have in front of me. Now you have a little piece of me with you which I gave you freely and spontaniously.
Paulo Coelho
#15. Be easy and condescending in your deportment to your officers, but not too familiar, lest you subject yourself to a want of respect, which is necessary to support a proper command.
George Washington
#16. Respect is the word I want. You have to earn it. You give, and you get it in return, that's how I see it.
Joe Torre
#17. Obviously you can look at things however you choose to and I'm not proud of some people in sports, but I don't really look at it as my calling to be out there setting an example. I just try to treat people the way the I want to be treated - with respect and some dignity.
Mark Martin
#18. I respect that you want to protect your niece. You know, I didn't want my daughter to become a boxer. Neither did Mohammad. But Joe Frazier, on the other hand, he had his baby girl boxing in the crib.
George Foreman
#19. Don't condemn what another sees as perfection, just because it doesn't fit your ideals. You want that respect from them, so be the first to give it when considering their position." With
Judith Pella
#20. How others perceive us is entirely up to us. A man is what he makes of himself. He can be treated with respect and goodwill, or he can be crushed underfoot like a worm. If you want to be successful in the world of trade and commerce, then you must look successful.
Petra Durst-Benning
#21. You have to respect your parents. They are giving you an at-bat. If you're an entrepreneur and go into the family business, you want to grow fast. Patience is important. But respect the other party ... My dad and I pulled it off because we really respect each other.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#22. Respect isn't something you command through intimidation and intellectual bullying. It's something you build through a long life of treating people how you want to be treated
Lena Dunham
#23. Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected - that is essential.
Anna Gould
#24. I always tell my students: I don't care which side you're on. I respect you too much to try to persuade you in 120 minutes a week, much less lure you into pretending that you agree with me. All I want is for you to own this democracy, to see yours, to have a stake in it.
Susan Estrich
#25. Close your eyes and visualize the person you really want to be, who fits your own concepts of self-respect. If you can see the person clearly in the mirror of you mind, you surely will become that person.
Denis Waitley
#26. You can't buy back your respect; you can't buy back your career. You only get one, so I don't want to mess that up.
Shia Labeouf
#27. If you don't know what you want, you'll never find it.
If you don't know what you deserve, you'll always settle for less.
You will wander aimlessly, uncomfortably numb in your comfort zone, wondering how life has ended up here.
Life starts now, live, love, laugh and let your light shine!
Rob Liano
#28. Treat the world the way you want to be treated.
Mike Tyson
#29. Be honest with who you are, what you want and how you want to be treated. Boundaries only scare off the people that were not meant to be in your life.
Shannon L. Alder
#30. Everything has boundaries. The same holds true with thought. You shouldn't fear boundaries, but you should not be afraid of destroying them. That's what is most important if you want to be free: respect for and exasperation with boundaries.
Haruki Murakami
#31. Success is the ability to live your life, the way you want to live it, doing what you enjoy most, surrounded by people you admire and respect.
Brian Tracy
#32. The reality is that if you want to be in a reality-based community, you've got to respect reality and that means calling it bad when you see the past ahead and it doesn't look good and acknowledging when it's going to work.
John Hodgman
#33. As a chef, you need to respect your guests and their needs. If they decide that they want to eat certain things and not eat others, if for religious reasons or just decide they don't want to eat certain ingredients, you have to respect that.
Joel Robuchon
#34. If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule: Never lie to yourself!
Paolo Koeljo
#36. I actually don't know anyone who wants to be famous for fame's sake, at least not anyone I respect. But you need to have a certain amount of power in order to be able to do what you want.
Michael Ian Black
#37. I desperately want Scotland to be an independent country. I cannot, though, sit here and tell you definitively that it will happen, and that it will happen on this timescale, because I have to respect the opinion of the people of Scotland.
Nicola Sturgeon
#38. When you're a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls - you want to get the most girls. You don't know anything about respect; you don't know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.
Nas
#39. When I approach a band, I want to respect them and be respectful of their music. I'm not gonna say, 'Look, you guys are real hot, so we'll stick you in the movie, and we'll get it in all these stores and all these stations.' That isn't right.
John Hughes
#40. O Heavenly Children, you chant God's name but you have forgotten him. He does not want your verses, or the coins from your purses, but for you to love and embrace each other. To uphold truth, justice and peace - and to respect your father and mother, fellow sisters and brothers.
Suzy Kassem
#41. I really respect peple who try. People who say, No, I'm actually going to do the best I can. That said, you want to do the best you can while remaining who you are.
Christian Finnegan
#42. Never settle on a life you don't want when God is trying to give you a better life.
Shannon L. Alder
#43. You can't get caught up in worrying about whether everyone you work with likes you. Ultimately you want the respect of your coworkers,
Kate White
#44. You always want to challenge yourself and work with people you respect. You can't always go by genres, but it's always fun to challenge yourself.
Mila Kunis
#45. As an actor, you really want to respect and honor the script. You want to try to be in the moment and you also realize that you're one part of a bigger picture and when they call action, you have your dance.
Carrie-Anne Moss
#46. A film has to be for commercial success as well as earn you respect as an artist. You don't want to do only things that are designed to run commercially, and neither do you want to do things that get acclaim but don't run.
Saif Ali Khan
#47. When you respect somebody who has talent, whether it's a designer or a photographer, then you don't want to let yourself down - but you also really don't want to let them down.
Guido Palau
#48. Know how you want to be treated, and expect that when you deal with people. Also remember to give people the respect that you want.
Terraine Francois
#49. -Appointments? You can't be serious. With all due respect, they have the cognitive capacity of chimpanzees right now.-
-And if we want to change that, we will start treating them as human beings, not a mob of apes.-
Neal Shusterman
#50. I deal with a lot of wonderful gay people. I hire a lot of them. I use a lot of them. I respect them. They're terrific. I am good friends with them. But you live your life the way you want to live, and I'll live mine, and I won't stick my nose in yours.
Richard DeVos
#51. If you want to be deeply respected, deeply respect as many people as possible.
Robin Sharma
#52. I believe family first. Blood is thicker than water. I grew up like that, and I want to continue to keep that goal in my heart. Just family first! Just honesty, integrity, and respect. All of that. I live by the code of those things. If you do that you'll be fine.
Cory Hardrict
#53. Throw away respect,
Tradition, form, and ceremonious duty;
For you have but mistook me all this while.
I live with bread, like you; feel want,
Taste grief, need friends. Subjected thus,
How can you say to me I am king?
William Shakespeare
#54. As much as I want your respect, you never, ever live your life to make someone else happy. You got me?
Kristen Callihan
#55. If you want to kill someone, have enough respect for my time to make it someone, anyone, other than the most gobsmackingly obvious person in the world. One
Tana French
#56. If you want to be a great leader, remember to treat all people with respect at all times. For one, because you never know when you'll need their help. And two, because it's a sign you respect people, which all great leaders do.
Simon Sinek
#57. I want to say, embrace your sexuality, own it, be confident, but you don't have to show everything. Respect yourself, and make others respect you.
Liz Goldwyn
#58. I love you, Guy, and I think I shall go on loving you, but I'm not in love. I've had that and it was a torment, a humiliation and a warning. So now I'm settling for a quiet life with someone I respect and am very fond of and want to spend my life with.
P.D. James
#59. If you want to connect with people who are in distress and great grief and scared, you need to do it in a certain way. I move kind of slow. I talk kind of slow. I let them know that I respect them.
James Nachtwey
#60. All they expect from you is your best effort. These Marines think that they are special. They are very well trained, very close knit, and they don't like outsiders. If you want their respect, you will have to earn it.
Bruce H. Norton
#61. Fear doesn't gain respect. It just makes people do what you want to shut you up and get you away from them.
S.A. Tawks
#62. Would you respect a God you could comprehend? And yet very often that's what we want - a God who reflects our culture, our biases, our economic, political, and military systems.
Richard Rohr
#63. The love, support, and respect the members of the theater community have for one another is unparalleled. Say what you want about us wacky drama-types, but one thing that makes our business special is our loyalty, our fierce commitment to one another, and our mutual respect.
Monica Raymund
#64. [J]ust from a political perspective, do you think the president of the United States going into re-election wants gas prices to go up higher? ... Look, here's the bottom line with respect to gas prices: I want gas prices lower because they hurt families.
Barack Obama
#65. If You believe in yourself you can reach everything you want.
Kees Broos
#66. No one can insult me, because I do not want respect.
No one can defeat me, because I have given up the idea of winning.
How can you defeat me? You can only defeat someone who wants to win.
Lao-Tzu
#67. 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
#68. Not everyone is treated with such respect. But whenever my father sang, all the birds in the area would fall silent and listen. His voice was beautiful, high and clear and so filled with life it made you want to laugh and cry at the same time.
Suzanne Collins
#69. Anytime you get to join a group of people you admire and respect, you want to keep those doors open.
James Wolk
#70. But that's how it is on a sailing ship, and in this respect its journey parallels that of life: simply knowing where you want to go isn't enough, because life is a windblown voyage, consisting mainly of the detours imposed by alternating calm and storm.
Carsten Jensen
#71. Madrid is not as big as London, but it is true when you are coming from a big city like Madrid, nothing is going to surprise you, and I am very happy to move to a city like London. It is a big city, and you can do everything you want with the respect that the English people always have.
Fernando Torres
#73. If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#74. Sometimes you want things so bad you will kind of lower your standards, and I've learned that once you do that, it's really hard to go back, to get people to respect you and respect your craft.
Tamar Braxton
#75. Musically, I want to graduate and become one of the greatest. You can't do that just spitting punchlines. I respect those people who say they love that old style, but it would be greedy of them to want me to stay that same person.
Chamillionaire
#76. If you want me to treat your ideas with more respect, get some better ideas.
John Scalzi
#77. It's really how you deal with people. Do people respect you? Are you honest with people even if it's something they don't want to hear? Anyone in Hollywood will tell you I'm extremely up front and honest almost to a fault.
Ving Rhames
#78. There are a lot of things and in order to be at the top and maintain your focus you have to have something that motivates you. For me, it was what I perceived as a lack of respect from the boxing world as well as the media, which made me want to work so hard and be great.
Marvin Hagler
#79. As an actor, you get to live out many professions. I just want to continue to evolve. My one goal in this business is just longevity and respect, and that's something I'll always have to work toward.
Jerry Ferrara
#80. If you want a world ruled by law and not by force you must build up, from the very grassroots, a respect for law.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#81. I want you to understand that I respect the rights of the poorest and weakest of colored people, oppressed [to deny others their rights or liberty] by the slave system, just as much as I do those of the most wealthy and powerful. That is the idea that has moved me, and that alone.
John Brown
#82. Treat other people's home as you want them to respect yours because what goes around comes around.
Ana Monnar
#83. Be respectful. Treat people the way you want to be treated. Respect the lowest rank and the highest rank and you'll never get in trouble.
Alex Rodriguez
#84. If you want to conquer conceit, do not desire praise, laurels, nice garments, respect, favor, but like to be blamed and slandered by people ...
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov
#85. With businesses, you go to the same places because you like the service, you like the people and they take care of you. They greet you with a smile. That's how people want to be treated, with respect. That's what I tell my employees.. customer service is very important.
Magic Johnson
#86. The first few games that we played against some of the teams, the young guys, you know, want a stick sign or photo sign, and I think that they respect what I have achieved throughout my career.
Mario Lemieux
#87. We had punks literally protesting Fugazi. I respect a boycott. I respect a conscionable boycott, but of all bands to boycott? Fight crime. If you really want to get out there, go fight crime.
Ian MacKaye
#88. I respect you," he murmured. "and your views. I think of you as an equal. I respect your brains, and all those big words you like to use. But I also want to rip your clothes off and have sex with you until you scream and cry and see God." -Jack Travis (Smooth Talking Stranger)
Lisa Kleypas
#89. Manners are manners. Jimmy Connors and Ilie Nastase have no respect. I don't want my kid seeing Nastase play. The demeanor you show on the court is important to tennis ... Maybe we (yesterday's stars) were too stereotyped. But we were told to behave or they'd take our racket away.
Rod Laver
#90. Life wants you to respect yourself, respect other people and respect the planet.
Bryant McGill
#91. Inspire people very selectively with sincerity and with respect. You want to increase your energy? Then want, inside your heart, to inspire others. It will lift you tremendously.
Frederick Lenz
#92. People will always want intimacy with one chosen person and you cannot have intimacy without privacy, which is why couples draw circles of privacy around themselves. They demand that family, neighbors and the law respect their union, and that is why we have marriage.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#93. Speak up and speak clearly. I want to hear what you have to say because it matters. Let's listen to each other and respect one another's opinions. Although, they may be different, wisdom allows us to be responsible for our own feelings and actions.
Felicia Johnson
#94. Now that you have a bit of respect, you value your standing in the group and don't want to jeopardize it. To maintain and then gain status, you play a game of follow-the-leader, conforming to prove your worth as a group member. As
Adam M. Grant
#95. Someone who doesn't respect your boundaries deserves no place in your life, but they should respect those boundaries because they want to, not because you tell them to.
Simeon Lindstrom
#96. It's never going to be that way with us. Anything you say "stop" about, I respect. No apologies, no guilt on your part, no feeling like you've disappointed me. I want you to feel comfortable saying it. You want to get out of here now?.
Joey W. Hill
#97. Give respect before you expect it. Treat people the way you want to be treated. Remember the mission. Set the example. Keep going.
Vernon Baker
#98. Being a judge is sometimes like raising children: litigants get the time they need, not necessarily the time they want, and you have to earn people's respect by communicating to them that you're going to listen, follow the law and make a fair decision.
Steven Pacey
#99. Typically, when you look for role models, you want someone who has your interests and came from the same background. Well, look how restricting that is. What people should do is take role models a la carte. If there's someone whose character you appreciated, you respect that trait.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#100. Respect is how to treat everyone, not just those you want to impress.
Richard Branson
