Top 100 Respect Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.”

— Audrey Hepburn

52. “There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

53. “See the light in others, and treat them as if that is all you see.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

54. “It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.”

— Maya Angelou

55. “Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

56. “Earth does not belong to us; we belong to earth. Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.”

— Chief Seattle

57. “You don’t demand respect, you earn it.”

— Anonymous

58. “Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed. Each of us is loved. Each of us is necessary.”

— Pope Benedict XVI

59. “Our rewards in life will always be in exact proportion to the amount of consideration we show toward others.”

— Earl Nightingale

60. “Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.”

— Laurence Sterne

61. “I want to love you without clutching, appreciate you without judging, join you without invading, invite you without demanding, leave you without guilt, criticize you without blaming, and help you without insulting. If I can have the same from you, then we can truly meet and enrich each other.”

— Virginia Satir

62. “Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.”

— Bruce Lee

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

— Bryant McGill

64. “Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.”

— William Arthur Ward

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

— Richard Bach

66. “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

67. “Respect a man, and he will do all the more.”

— John Wooden

68. “Respect yourself and others will respect you.”

— Confucius

69. “Let us develop respect for all living things. Let us try to replace violence and intolerance with understanding and compassion. And love.”

— Jane Goodall

70. “The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.”

— Samuel Johnson

71. “Walk tall, or baby don’t walk at all.”

— Bruce Springsteen

72. “Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

73. “Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.”

— Albert Schweitzer

74. “Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.”

— Eldridge Cleaver

75. “We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle. When we think well, we feel good. Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.”

— Carl Sagan

76. “I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.”

— Michel de Montaigne

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

— Anton Chekhov

78. “When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old.”

— Clint Eastwood

79. “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 Dalí

80. “With my old man I got no respect. When he took me hunting he gave me a three minute head start. Then on the way home he tied me to the fender and put the deer in the car.”

— Rodney Dangerfield

81. “Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

82. “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

83. “Only those who respect the personality of others can be of real use to them.”

— Albert Schweitzer

84. “I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don’t even invite me.”

— Dave Barry

85. “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

86. “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

87. “When there is a respect for small things, there will be an even greater respect towards the bigger things. When there is no respect for small things, then neither will there be for the bigger ones. This is how the Fathers maintained Tradition.”

— Elder Paisios of Mount Athos

88. “We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.”

— Aldo Leopold

89. “Tolerance, a term which we sometimes use in place of the words respect, mercy, generosity, or forbearance, is the most essential element of moral systems; it is a very important source of spiritual discipline and a celestial virtue of perfected people.”

— Fethullah Gulen

90. “Wise guidance never violates people’s Free Will. A superior who demands obedience of his subordinates should show respect for their capacity to understand, and also for their Innate Right to their own Free Will.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

91. “Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.”

— André Gide

92. “When I was a kid I got no respect. I played hide-and-seek. They wouldn’t even look for me.”

— Rodney Dangerfield

93. “Only that in you which is me can hear what I’m saying.”

— Ram Dass

94. “I dress up a certain way because I respect the music.”

— Wynton Marsalis

95. “When I was a kid I got no respect. I told my mother, I’m gonna run away from home. She said, On your mark...”

— Rodney Dangerfield

96. “Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.”

— Ambrose Bierce

97. “Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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

— Charles Baudelaire

99. “With girls I get no respect. A belly dancer told me I turned her stomach.”

— Rodney Dangerfield

100. “When you borrow a man’s car, always return it with a tank of gas.”

— Charlie Munger