45 Positive Attitude Respect Quotes

Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (1880)

Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.Jane Austen, Emma (1815)

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Be a person and respect others as persons.Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Elements of the Philosophy of Right (1820)

Respect is a thing earned and not demanded.Robert Jordan, Towers of Midnight (2010)

You can’t force someone to respect you. But you can refuse to be disrespected.Anonymous

Respect is one of life’s greatest treasures.Marilyn Monroe, Marilyn: Her Life In Her Own Words by George Barris (1995)

Respect is better procured by exacting than soliciting it.Fulke Greville, Maxims, Characters and Reflections (1757), Page 68

Your attitude is like a mirror. The attitude you give out is the same attitude you will get back.Justin Herald, Would You Like Attitude With That? (2006), Page 5

Those who want respect, give respect.Tony Soprano, (to Richie), The Sopranos, S2.Ep12: The Knight in White Satin Armor

You made a decision. Live with it. Believe in it. Otherwise, how can I ever respect you?Gunnhild, Vikings, S6.Ep9: Resurrection

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.Aristotle, Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages (1888), Page 245

A man who has no respect cannot show it, surely.Uhtred, The Last Kingdom, S5.Ep4

Everyone’s ever disrespected you, see them. Anything you ever wanted, go after it.Rocky Balboa, Creed (2015)

To be admired and to be respected is a protection against helplessness and against insignificance.Marlon Brando, Listen to Me Marlon (2015)

There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903)

There is no respect without humility.Henri Frédéric Amiel, Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1893), Page 103

Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due. Eldridge Cleaver, Soul on Ice (1968), Page 83

If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself.Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Insulted and the Injured (1861)

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

Self-respect is something that can’t be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man’s pretense at it.Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead (1943)

If you respect yourself and you love yourself, that’s the only way anybody else is going to.Kristen Stewart

To have a respect for ourselves, guides our morals; and to have a deference for others, governs our manners.Laurence Sterne, The Works of Laurence Sterne, A. M. (1805), Page 345

Respect yourself and others will respect you.Confucius

He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1883), Page 439

Proper respect to others is the most prudent rule of directing the measure of reverence due to ourselves.Norm Macdonald, Maxims and Moral Reflections (1827), Page 78

Posture is self-respect, and if you don’t have it, no one else will give it to you.Evil Queen, Once Upon a Time, S6.Ep3: The Other Shoe

Not one drop of my self-worth depends on your acceptance of me.Anonymous

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.Abraham Joshua Heschel, Essay on Youth (1960)

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.Maya Angelou, Angelou's Facebook (January 25, 2013)

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.Mark Twain, Following the Equator (1897)

The only kind of respect that matters in this damn world: Self-respect.Martin, Rocky Balboa (2006)

Character – the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life – is the source from which self-respect springs.Joan Didion, Self-respect: Its Source, Its Power; in Vogue (August 1961)

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays of Montaigne (1965), Page 178

You want some respect? Go out there and get it for yourself.Don Draper, Mad Men, S4.Ep8: The Summer Man

Men, good or bad, do not follow what they don’t respect.Thomas Byrnes, The Alienist, S1.Ep9: Requiem

Respect is not an entitlement. You can’t get it just by standing there asking for it. You earn it through your actions.Mike Thompson, Resident Alien, S1.Ep7: The Green Glow

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other’s opposite and complement.Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund (1930)

It is not titles that honor men, but men honor the titles.Niccolò Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy (1531)

True Work is the necessity of poor humanity’s earthly condition. The dignity is in leisure. Besides, 99 hundredths of all the work done in the world is either foolish and unnecessary, or harmful and wicked.Herman Melville, Letter to Catherine G. Lansing (September 5, 1877)

If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night (1934)

Don’t you go through life worrying about whether somebody like you or not. You best be making sure they’re doing right by you.Troy Maxson, Fences (2016)

You never win with violence. You only win when you maintain your dignity. Dignity always prevails.Don Shirley, (to Tony), Green Book (2018)

You wanna save your business? You wanna save your dignity? You’re gonna have to fight.Jimmy McGill, (to Howard), Better Call Saul, S4.Ep6: Piñata

Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.Ford Frick, The 10 Commandments of Umpiring (March 14, 1949)