Respect Quotes

• I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.

  

  Branch Rickey
  • Children
  • Failure
  • Courage

• You can't allow tradition to get in the way of innovation. There's a need to respect the past, but it's a mistake to revere your past.

  

  Bob Iger
  • Past
  • Mistake
  • Innovation

• I have great respect for directors who know what they're doing.

  

  Bill Mumy
  • Great
  • Respect

• I think rappers are the fall guy because some of us don't have the wits to point the finger back. The thing is when you take a whole generation and whip them out, string the mothers out and put the fathers in jail - the reason I know respect is because my father is the mediator between me and my grandfather. I'm the mediator between my son and my father because I'm old enough to understand where my father is coming from and young enough to understand what my kid is trying to do. When you whip out the mediator the kids run wild and the old people are scared of them.

  

  Nelly
  • People
  • Trying
  • Kids

• I write poetry because I can’t disobey the impulse; it would be like blocking a spring that surges up in my throat. For a long time I’ve been the servant of the song that comes, that appears and can’t be buried away. How to seal myself up now?…It no longer matters to me who receives what I submit. What I carry out is, in that respect, greater and deeper than I, I am merely the channel.

  

  Gabriela Mistral
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• I think if you look at Merck's history, I think Merck has a reputation for having been a reasonable company when it comes to pricing, sort of a leader in that respect.

  

  Kenneth Frazier
  • History
  • Respect

• Above all, there is Mother. She taught me how to love, how to have respect for other people.

  

  Joe Greene
  • People
  • She
  • Mother

• I have tremendous respect for teens who navigate the quagmire that is modern religion. If there is any message in my books, I want it to be that it's okay to ask questions, and it's okay to come up with a belief system all your own. Teens who change their worldviews in the face of tremendous social pressure are heroes to me.

  

  Rae Carson
  • Up
  • Change
  • Religion

• Respect is the key determinant of high performance leadership. How much people respect you determines how well they perform.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • High
  • Leadership

• You can work really hard and well on something, and someone you respect might hate it; worse, they're not empirically wrong for doing so. This is scary, especially for people who haven't been published.

  

  Darin Strauss
  • People
  • Work
  • Hate

• Respect the delicate ecology of your delusions.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Delusion
  • Delicate
  • Ecology

• Ask an older person you respect to tell you his or her greatest regret.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Respect
  • Regret
  • Greatest

• Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Truth
  • Man
  • Lie

• Respect was mingled with surprise,And the stern joy which warriors feelIn foeman worthy of their steel.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Respect
  • Joy

• I have a whole, whole lot of respect for the men and women that serve our country.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Men
  • Women
  • Country

• We should never insult others on account of their faults, for it is our duty to show charity and respect to everyone.

  

  John Calvin
  • Charity
  • Faults
  • Insult

• 'Family Ties' was a very successful situation comedy. And, in almost every respect, it functioned on a day to day basis like a well-run, well conditioned basketball team. The show was performed live each week in front of a studio audience on Friday night.

  

  Gary David Goldberg
  • Live
  • Family
  • Night

• I never lose touch. If you let me tell it, I'll tell you I never got my just due and my respect for being one of the greats in hip-hop, and because of that, the fire never burned out. There's more and more of a need for me to succeed or take the legacy a step further, and that's what it is.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Respect
  • Fire
  • Legacy

• You always respect the vets.

  

  Chris Harris, Jr.
  • Respect

• I came back from Standing Rock, and one of the things that struck me was their respect for elders. It was something that I felt like I needed to work on in my life.

  

  Kerby Jean-Raymond
  • Life
  • Work
  • Rock

• The relationship between the two men was something of a miracle in itself. It was a cordiality based, apparently, on complete non-comprehension cemented by a deep mutual respect for the utterly unknown. No two men saw less eye to eye and the result was unexpected harmony, as if a dog and a fish had mysteriously become friends and were proud each of the other's remarkable dissimilarity to himself.

  

  Margery Allingham
  • Men
  • Friends
  • Relationship

• In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.

  

  Abdus Salam
  • History
  • Science
  • Respect

• I respect the president. He and I have a difference of opinion on how to help the country we both love. But the question each of us wants the voters to answer is who will be the better president, not who is the better American.

  

  Jon Huntsman, Jr.
  • Country
  • American
  • Help

• She glanced at him. 'What gods do you respect?''None.''And why not?''I help myself,' he said.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Why
  • She
  • Help

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