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If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

Winston Churchill

Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.

Vanna Bonta

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

Abraham Lincoln

Don't worry about what the people say; be yourself, say what you want to say with respect.

Mariano Rivera

Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.

Gary Ryan Blair

I believe that working with good people matters because then the work environment is good. If there is a sense of respect and belief among the people you work with, that is when good work is done.

Ranbir Kapoor

I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place.

Maya Angelou

As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.

Vera Wang

I always respect a woman.

Enrique Iglesias

Be kind, don't judge, and have respect for others. If we can all do this, the world would be a better place. The point is to teach this to the next generation.

Jasmine Guinness

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

Jane Addams

A person's a person, no matter how small.

Dr. Seuss

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

Confucius

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

Brian Tracy

It isn't about being or not being a thug. It's about being real. I think that is how street respect is earned.

Sisqo

Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.

Imelda Marcos

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.

Joan Didion

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.

George Santayana

Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.

Philip James Bailey

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.

Edward Gibbon

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

Voltaire

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings.

Stockwell Day

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

Baltasar Gracian

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

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.

Barry Bonds

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

Louis D. Brandeis

I guess at the end of the day, all women like to be appreciated and treated with respect and kindness.

Sofia Vergara

It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.

Brendan Behan

I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'm a good piano player, I can sing well, I write good songs. If you don't like it, fair enough. But give me a break.

Elton John

This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.

Tupac Shakur

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.

Clint Eastwood

Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.

Thomas S. Monson

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

Lao Tzu

I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity.

Julius Erving

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

Mark Twain

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

Bryant H. McGill

I've been so lucky to work with such great people: people that are such hard workers and have such a respect and appreciation for one another.

Blake Lively

Assuredly, Loving Souls, you should go to God with all humility and respect, humbling yourselves in His presence, especially when you remember your past ingratitude and sins.

Alphonsus Liguori

We learned about gratitude and humility - that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean... and we were taught to value everyone's contribution and treat everyone with respect.

Michelle Obama

Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them.

John Updike

The person who comes up to you and makes the most noise and is the most intrusive is invariably the person in the room who has no respect for you at all, and it's really all about them.

Robbie Coltrane

When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.

Dalai Lama

Our deep respect for the land and its harvest is the legacy of generations of farmers who put food on our tables, preserved our landscape, and inspired us with a powerful work ethic.

James H. Douglas, Jr.

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Ira Gershwin

The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.

William Lyon Phelps

I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them.

Leon Kass

There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.

Charles Baudelaire

Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.

Lakhdar Brahimi

Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.

Tecumseh

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

Eli Whitney

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

Billy Graham

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

C. S. Lewis

We should all consider each other as human beings, and we should respect each other.

Malala Yousafzai

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Next month, I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride, Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I have gained even more respect for the institution over the past 3 decades and will defend it against attack.

Todd Tiahrt

Coaches will eventually notice a great attitude, and they respect that.

Heather O'Reilly

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

Bono

America wants its respect.

Tupac Shakur

But really, we also need to learn how to love one another as women. How to appreciate and respect each other.

Chaka Khan

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.

Richard Bach

I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform.

Erykah Badu

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

Laurence Sterne

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

Salvador Dali

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

Vince Lombardi

We should respect all religions and just believe in peace, kindness and harmony.

Ananya Panday

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

Albert Camus

Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

Stephen Covey

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

Albert Einstein

The true mark of professionalism is the ability to respect everyone else for their styles and always find something positive in every dining experience and highlight it in your thoughts and words.

Johnny Iuzzini

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.

Anton Chekhov

Next month, I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride, Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I have gained even more respect for the institution over the past 3 decades and will defend it against attack.

Todd Tiahrt

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.

Marilyn Monroe

I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.

Margaret Mead

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

Malcolm X

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

Jackie Robinson

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

William J. H. Boetcker

Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life.

Robert Casey

People want to hear what I have to say and respect what I say.

Jennifer Capriati

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

Bruce Lee

Respect the burden.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Be a warrior when it comes to delivering on your ambitions. And a saint when it comes to treating people with respect, modeling generosity, and showing up with outright love.

Robin S. Sharma

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

Albert Einstein

I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.

J. D. Salinger

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

Henri Frederic Amiel

I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.

Paulo Coelho

I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.

Audre Lorde

The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It's been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It's a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game.

Michael Jordan

The valor and courage of our young women and men in the armed services are a shining example to all of the world, and we owe them and their families our deepest respect.

Bill Frist

Well, I have great respect for Senator Hirono.

John Kennedy

There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.

Orison Swett Marden

Life is supposed to be about love and good times, and so I've forgiven myself after paying the consequences of my bad decisions, and I'm ready to move forward and allow my life to be a light to others that it's never over, even for a person like me, who has lost a tremendous amount of respect among my peers, my fans, my friends and family.

Jon Jones

Just imagine how different the world could be if we all spoke to everyone with respect and kindness.

Holly Branson

We don't need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.

Taylor Swift

It is so important to get respect for what you do and at the same time give it.

Estelle Parsons