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When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing.
Michael Jordan on respect

Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't have that?
Marilyn Monroe on respect

I have noticed... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.
Marilyn Monroe on respect

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

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
Friedrich Nietzsche on respect

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.
Steve Jobs on respect

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

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
Henry David Thoreau on respect

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 on respect

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 on respect

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 on respect

Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.
Tim Allen on respect

I feel very deeply about the need to respect and tolerate people of different social - or sexual orientation. But at the same time, I believe marriage should be preserved as an institution for one man and one woman.
Mitt Romney on respect

I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.
Richard Bach on respect

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?
Abdul Kalam on respect

There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.
Nathaniel Branden on respect

There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?
Richard Dawkins on respect

And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond that you do what you say you're going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don't know them and even if you don't agree with them.
Michelle Obama on respect

We reserve our deepest respect and admiration for those who volunteer for service and give their lives to help keep our nation secure.
Mitt Romney on respect

It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
Robert Louis Stevenson on respect