Respect Quotes

"The first step toward tolerance is respect and the first step toward respect is knowledge."

- Henry Louis Gates, Jr., historian and filmmaker

"I can’t tell you how much I respect all the single parents out there doing it solo"

- Jennie Finch

"The worst kind of person is the type that goes around minimizing the achievements of other people. If anything at all, I want to maximize whatever achievements and admirable qualities another person has. The better you do, or are, the louder I'll cheer for you. I am into wanting eagles to soar further and higher. I'm not a chicken farmer. There are so many chicken farmers. I cannot stand people who cannot stand in the light of another without trying to diminish it."

- C. JoyBell C.

"Remember that no matter how cool you think you may be, you’re not cool enough to look down on anyone… ever."

- Paul Walker

"The most important asset of any library goes home at night – the library staff."

- Timothy Healy

"Librarians are almost always very helpful and often almost absurdly knowledgeable. Their skills are probably very underestimated and largely underemployed."

- Charles Medawar

"A Trained Librarian is a Powerful Search Engine With a Heart."

- Sarah McIntyre

"The most important asset of any library goes home at night—the library staff."

- Timothy Healy

"If it’s important to her, then it’s important to me."

- Greg Provance

"Since we all came from a women, got our name from a women, and our game from a women. I wonder why we take from women, why we rape our women, do we hate our women? I think its time we killed for our women, be real to our women, try to heal our women, cus if we dont we'll have a race of babies that will hate the ladies, who make the babies. And since a man can't make one he has no right to tell a women when and where to create one"

- Tupac Shakur

"Her children arise and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her."

- Proverbs 31:28 (NIV)

"Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you."

- Exodus 20:12 (NIV)

"Bowing is an expression of gratitude & respect. You are thanking your opponent for giving you the opportunity to improve your technique."

- Jigoro Kano

"Do not overthrow the customs that have made it all the way to you."

- Leon Wieseltier, Kaddish

"To be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others."

- Nelson Mandela

"Passover is our tradition, and I like to keep up with that. Our ancestors couldn't eat bread, and it's nice for us to celebrate that every year by going through their struggles."

- Marsha Cohen

"I think every young child can learn through any martial art. They would then learn to respect their life, respect their parents, respect their country, and respect the whole world."

- Jackie Chan

"Imagine if every child learned the respect, courtesy, and discipline that martial arts teachers. The world would be a different place."

- Chris Whamond

""Karate begins and ends with courtesy.""

- Anko Itosu

"Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you're growing up, you're walking down the street, you've got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody. You can't pass one person."

- Usain Bolt

"Mr Ryder, when the princess speaks to you *every word* is important"

- Carms_Creates

"Whether someone is useful only matters if you value people by their use."

- Corinne Duyvis

"We must be treated as equals – and communication is the way we can bring this about."

- Louis Braille

"Recognizing and respecting differences in others, and treating everyone like you want them to treat you, will help make our world a better place for everyone. Care… be your best. You don’t have to be handicapped to be different. Everyone is different!"

- Kim Peek

"There is no greater disability in society, than the inability to see a person as more."

- Robert M. Hensel

"What would you do, cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil? … and when the law was down and the Devil turned round on you, where would you hide … the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws from coast to coast. Man’s laws, not God’s. And if you cut them down … do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I give the Devil benefit of law for my own safety’s sake."

- Robert Bolt

"Don’t ask something of someone else, you wouldn’t do yourself."

"May your effort be seen, your limits respected, and your quiet progress honored"

- Unknown

""A son's love for his mother is the foundation of his respect for all women.""

"You’ll Bring Honor to Us All"