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respect

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

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

I always respect a woman. – Enrique Iglesias

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

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

People want to hear what I have to say and respect what I say. – Jennifer Capriati

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

One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

I look for these qualities and characteristics in people. Honesty is number one, respect, and absolutely the third would have to be loyalty. – Summer Altice

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

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst. – Winston Churchill

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect. – Winston Churchill

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance. – Maya Angelou

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information. – Benjamin Franklin

I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest. – Rodney Dangerfield

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. – Henry David Thoreau

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny. – Bertrand Russell

Throughout my career, if I have done anything, I have paid attention to every note and every word I sing – if I respect the song. If I cannot project this to a listener, I fail. – Frank Sinatra

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