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Respect Quotes


"Debate, but do not argue. Challenge, but do not force your opinions. To win an argument, but lose a friendship, is a loss. To lose an argument, but retain a friendship, is gain."


"If I am still doing what I'm doing and I still have respect in this town, haven't done anything completely and utterly stupid, then I'll be happy with myself."


"The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things."


"A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could."


"If you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill."


"If you played the game the right way, played the game for the team, good things would happen."


"If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that."


"Respect yourself if you would have others respect you."


"Be obligated to people only in mutual love."


"Never disregard people, regardless of their beliefs, because we all carry God's likeness."


"You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself."


"I respect the game that goes on of putting this against that, but I don't respect, nor do I enjoy, an awful lot of the actual programs that go on the air."


"Another consequence of not knowing the value of what you possess in this case the value of life is that, there would be some other people around you that will better understand what you possess."


"In high school, we studied a lot of poetical forms. I was really interested in the math that was involved and the strange live break ups. That gave me a great amount of respect for a rhymed stanza."


"Only with the honour thus acquired can we earn the respect of our other compatriots as well."


"The crowd paid little or no respect to every player out there tonight."


"Marches alone won't bring integration when human respect is disintegratin'"


"To take responsibility is to create respect for the church throughout the earth."


"But, you know, sometimes - many - they all understand. That's the nice thing. They were all very happy for me and they understand why I decided to come to CNN. So in that respect, I know that they think it's the best thing for me to do."


"I have found that the players who have played in that game really do have respect for their adversaries."


"I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket."


"Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not."


"Respect your voice. Be a voice for those who do not have a voice."


"I have a great respect for the academics who are working with the source material. My hat's off to them."


"Respect... is appreciation of the separateness of the other person, of the ways in which he or she is unique."


"I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me."


"There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All have erred in this respect."


"If I respect myself and believe in what I'm doing, no one can touch me."


"The concept of dignity of labour took people off the street."


"I had a lot of respect for Biggie, and it was just a weird, kinda difficult thing. When I'm doing touchy interviews like that, I just try to be fair to both parties."


"To be dignified and distinguished give honor and dignity to others."


"What we learned quite early on is what was really important to early British pop that we produced-and this is where we were distinct from almost everybody else in this respect-is that it had to reflect exactly what the audience wanted us to say."


"One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say."


"The Arab League tells us to go in and take out Qaddafi. We've spent billions of dollars already with respect to the Arab League. Billions of dollars, because they told us to do it. Why aren't they paying for it? They don't like Qaddafi, Qaddafi's been a terrible thorn in their side."


"If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal."


"For a season, a gifted speaker can inspire with his words, but for a lifetime John McCain has inspired with his deeds."


"Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due."


"Never hurt a woman because she is someone's mother or will be someone's mother. Could you hurt your mother?"


"I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them."


"I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect."


"If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do?"
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