Man is still a savage to the extent that he has little respect for anything that cannot hurt him.

—Edgar Watson Howe

I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.

—Charles de Gaulle

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

—Buddha

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

—Albert Einstein

At the end of the day, you want to respect what you do. In a certain sense, our work is us. We get into it, and it gets into us.

—John W. Rowe

All respect comes from persisting to completion.

—Melissa Lima

What women want is what men want. They want respect.

—Marilyn vos Savant

True self-respect, being very different from false pride, leads inevitably to respecting others.

—Virginia Moore

To have the sense of one’s own intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love, and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference.

—Joan Didion

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

We can really respect a man only if he doesn’t always look out for himself.

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

That wealth and greatness are often regarded with the respect and admiration which are due only to wisdom and virtue; and that the contempt, of which vice and folly are the only proper objects, is most often unjustly bestowed upon poverty and weakness, has been the complaint of moralists in all ages.

—Adam Smith

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

—Pearl S. Buck

He who wants a rose must respect the thorn.

Persian proverb

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

Albert Schweitzer

Respect is love in plain clothes.

Frankie Byrne

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

– William Lyon Phelps