Top 50 Respect To Be Respected Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Confucius

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2. “Respect is how to treat everyone, not just those you want to impress.”

— Richard Branson

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3. “I Have a Dream”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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4. “I don't care if you're black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you're nice to me, I'll be nice to you. Simple as that.”

— Eminem

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5. “Follow the three R’s: – Respect for self. – Respect for others. – Responsibility for all your actions.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

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6. “The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him – that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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7. “Don’t ask for respect. Earn it.”

— Robin S. Sharma

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8. “Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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

— Bryant McGill

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10. “My religion is kindness.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

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11. “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view – until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”

— Harper Lee

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12. “Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.”

— Lou Holtz

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13. “If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.”

— Fred Rogers

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14. “I don’t want to be liked. I want to be respected.”

— Jack Ma

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15. “You are no better than anyone else and no one is better than you.”

— John Wooden

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16. “I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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17. “There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind.”

— Fred Rogers

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

— Billy Graham

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19. “I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one’s self-respect.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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20. “A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.”

— A. A. Milne

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21. “Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.”

— Jesse Jackson

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22. “Seek respect, not attention. It lasts longer.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

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23. “Let us be kind to one another, to be aware of each other’s needs, and try to help in that regard.”

— Thomas S. Monson

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24. “You are worthy of love and respect. You are beautiful, gifted, and intelligent. Don’t let the storm make you forget it.”

— Russell T. Davies

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25. “Human dignity is the same for all human beings: when I trample on the dignity of another, I am trampling on my own.”

— Pope Francis

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26. “A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present?”

— Confucius

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27. “You are in a partnership with all other human beings, not a contest to be judged better than some and worse than others.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

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28. “The only time you should look down at someone, is when you are helping them up.”

— Jesse Jackson

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29. “We should respect all people.”

— Helen Keller

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30. “If we could look into each other’s hearts and understand the unique challenges each of us faces, I think we would treat each other much more gently, with more love, patience, tolerance, and care.”

— Marvin J. Ashton

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31. “Respect all. Fear none.”

— Bum Phillips

32. “A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.”

— Frederick Douglass

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33. “Value everyone’s contribution and treat everyone with respect.”

— Michelle Obama

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34. “We’re all human, aren’t we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.”

— J.K. Rowling

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35. “Show respect to people who don’t deserve it. Not as a reflection of their character, but of yours.”

— Dave Willis

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36. “We get out of life what we put into it. The way we treat others is the way we ourselves get treated.”

— Ben Carson

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37. “Trust and respect are something you earn, not something that is given.”

— Billie Jean King

38. “Mutual respect is the foundation of genuine harmony.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

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39. “Bullying is not okay. Period.”

— Jim C. Hines

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40. “A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.”

— Thomas Carlyle

41. “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

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42. “If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets as Raphael painted pictures, sweep streets as Michelangelo carved marble, sweep streets as Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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43. “The respect you give others is a dramatic reflection of the respect you give yourself.”

— Robin S. Sharma

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44. “The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being.”

— Pope John Paul II

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45. “Always treat people as ends in themselves, never as means to an end.”

— Immanuel Kant

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46. “Lead such a life, that, when you die, the people may mourn you, and while you are alive they long for your company.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

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47. “Be dignified, honest and truthful.”

— Umar

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48. “Having respect for animals makes us better humans...”

— Jane Goodall

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49. “Colleagues should take care of each other, have fun, celebrate success, learn by failure, look for reasons to praise not to criticize, communicate freely and respect each other.”

— Richard Branson

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50. “I won’t be wronged. I won’t be insulted. I won’t be laid a-hand on. I don’t do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.”

— John Wayne

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