# Quotes about respect - Quotes: 74 - Authors: 52 - Broader topic: [Quotes about relationships](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/relationships.md) - Topic page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect - JSON version (same data): https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.json ## Quotes > Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough; and when you have enough, you have self-respect. [Gail Sheehy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gail-sheehy.md) · [Passages](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gail-sheehy/passages.md) · p. 416 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gail-sheehy/passages/would-that-there.md) Topics: [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md), [self-acceptance](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/self-acceptance.md) > How they treat you is about who they are, not who you are. [Nedra Glover Tawwab](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nedra-glover-tawwab.md) · [Set Boundaries, Find Peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nedra-glover-tawwab/set-boundaries-find-peace.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nedra-glover-tawwab/set-boundaries-find-peace/how-they-treat.md) Topics: [character](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/character.md), [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md) > Emotionally mature people may tell you how they feel about what you did, but they don’t pretend to know you better than you know yourself. [Lindsay C. Gibson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lindsay-c-gibson.md) · [Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lindsay-c-gibson/adult-children-of-emotionally-immature-parents.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lindsay-c-gibson/adult-children-of-emotionally-immature-parents/emotionally-mature-people.md) Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md) > One’s emotions are one’s own; to suggest that others should imitate them is to impose on the personal integrity of others. [Paula Gunn Allen](https://www.leafyquotes.com/paula-gunn-allen.md) · [The Sacred Hoop](https://www.leafyquotes.com/paula-gunn-allen/the-sacred-hoop.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/paula-gunn-allen/the-sacred-hoop/ones-emotions-are.md) Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md) > When I was small, my mother often told me that animals, insects, and plants are to be treated with the kind of respect one customarily accords to high-status adults. “Life is a circle, and everything has its place in it,” she would say. That’s how I met the sacred hoop, which has been an integral part of my life. [Paula Gunn Allen](https://www.leafyquotes.com/paula-gunn-allen.md) · [The Sacred Hoop](https://www.leafyquotes.com/paula-gunn-allen/the-sacred-hoop.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/paula-gunn-allen/the-sacred-hoop/when-i-was.md) Topics: [nature](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/nature.md), [animals](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/animals.md), [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md) > To address a person as “mother” is to pay the highest ritual respect. [Paula Gunn Allen](https://www.leafyquotes.com/paula-gunn-allen.md) · [The Sacred Hoop](https://www.leafyquotes.com/paula-gunn-allen/the-sacred-hoop.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/paula-gunn-allen/the-sacred-hoop/to-address-a-person.md) Topics: [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md), [mother](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/mother.md) > Science can be a way of forming intimacy and respect with other species that is rivaled only by the observations of traditional knowledge holders. It can be a path to kinship. [Robin Wall Kimmerer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robin-wall-kimmerer.md) · [Braiding Sweetgrass](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robin-wall-kimmerer/braiding-sweetgrass.md) · p. 252 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robin-wall-kimmerer/braiding-sweetgrass/science-can-be-a-way.md) Topics: [science](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/science.md), [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md) > The teachings tell us that a harvest is made honorable by what you give in return for what you take. [Robin Wall Kimmerer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robin-wall-kimmerer.md) · [Braiding Sweetgrass](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robin-wall-kimmerer/braiding-sweetgrass.md) · p. 194 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robin-wall-kimmerer/braiding-sweetgrass/the-teachings-tell.md) Topics: [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md) > Sustainable harvesting can be the way we treat a plant with respect, by respectfully receiving its gift. [Robin Wall Kimmerer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robin-wall-kimmerer.md) · [Braiding Sweetgrass](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robin-wall-kimmerer/braiding-sweetgrass.md) · p. 165 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robin-wall-kimmerer/braiding-sweetgrass/sustainable-harvesting-can.md) Topics: [nature](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/nature.md), [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md) > Respect one another, support one another, bring your gift to the world and receive the gifts of others, and there will be enough for all. [Robin Wall Kimmerer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robin-wall-kimmerer.md) · [Braiding Sweetgrass](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robin-wall-kimmerer/braiding-sweetgrass.md) · p. 132 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robin-wall-kimmerer/braiding-sweetgrass/respect-one-another.md) Topics: [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md), [generosity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/generosity.md) > In weaving well-being for land and people, we need to pay attention to the lessons of the three rows. Ecological well-being and the laws of nature are always the first row. Without them, there is no basket of plenty. Only if that first circle is in place can we weave the second. The second reveals material welfare, the subsistence of human needs. Economy built upon ecology. But with only two rows in place, the basket is still in jeopardy of pulling apart. It’s only when the third row comes that the first two can hold together. Here is where ecology, economics, and spirit are woven together. By using materials as if they were a gift, and returning that gift through worthy use, we find balance. I think that third row goes by many names: Respect. Reciprocity. All Our Relations. I think of it as the spirit row. Whatever the name, the three rows represent recognition that our lives depend on one another, human needs being only one row in the basket that must hold us all. In relationship, the separate splints become a whole basket, sturdy and resilient enough to carry us into the future. [Robin Wall Kimmerer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robin-wall-kimmerer.md) · [Braiding Sweetgrass](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robin-wall-kimmerer/braiding-sweetgrass.md) · p. 152 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robin-wall-kimmerer/braiding-sweetgrass/in-weaving-well-being.md) Topics: [ecology](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/ecology.md), [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md) > By honoring the knowledge in the land, and caring for its keepers, we start to become indigenous to place. [Robin Wall Kimmerer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robin-wall-kimmerer.md) · [Braiding Sweetgrass](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robin-wall-kimmerer/braiding-sweetgrass.md) · p. 210 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robin-wall-kimmerer/braiding-sweetgrass/by-honoring-the.md) Topics: [nature](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/nature.md), [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md) > A harvest is made honorable when it sustains the giver as well as the taker. [Robin Wall Kimmerer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robin-wall-kimmerer.md) · [Braiding Sweetgrass](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robin-wall-kimmerer/braiding-sweetgrass.md) · p. 194 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robin-wall-kimmerer/braiding-sweetgrass/a-harvest-is-made.md) Topics: [nature](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/nature.md), [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md) > If you ask permission, you have to listen to the answer. [Robin Wall Kimmerer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robin-wall-kimmerer.md) · [Braiding Sweetgrass](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robin-wall-kimmerer/braiding-sweetgrass.md) · p. 176 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robin-wall-kimmerer/braiding-sweetgrass/if-you-ask.md) Topics: [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md), [listening](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/listening.md) > The guidelines of the Honorable Harvest are not usually written down, they are reinforced in small acts of daily life. But if I were to list them they would look something like this: > > Know the ways of the ones who take care of you, so that you can take care of them. > > Introduce yourself. Be accountable as the one who comes asking for a life. > > Ask permission before taking. Abide by the answer. > > Never take the first one. Never take the last. > > Take only what you need. > > Take only that which is given. > > Never take more than half. Leave some for others. > > Harvest in a way that minimizes harm.: > > Use it respectfully. Never waste what you have taken. > > Share. > > Give thanks for what you have been given. > > Give a gift in reciprocity for what you have taken. > > Sustain the ones who sustain you and the Earth will last forever. [Robin Wall Kimmerer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robin-wall-kimmerer.md) · [The Serviceberry](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robin-wall-kimmerer/the-serviceberry.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robin-wall-kimmerer/the-serviceberry/the-guidelines-of-the.md) Topics: [nature](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/nature.md), [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md) > “You see,” she says slowly, “I was always desired. But now I am valued. And that is a different thing, I find.” [Hilary Mantel](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hilary-mantel.md) · [Wolf Hall](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hilary-mantel/wolf-hall.md) · p. 400 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hilary-mantel/wolf-hall/you-see-she.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md) > After this incident I got into the bad habit of treating her with courtesy and respect. Courtesy and respect are advisable when addressing a judge right before he sentences you, but in a relationship they signify discomfort. [Steve Toltz](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steve-toltz.md) · [A Fraction Of The Whole](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steve-toltz/a-fraction-of-the-whole.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steve-toltz/a-fraction-of-the-whole/after-this-incident.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md) > You children, you forget that no matter how high the okra tree grows, it's never mightier than the hand that planted it. [Chika Unigwe](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chika-unigwe.md) · [Night Dancer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chika-unigwe/night-dancer.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chika-unigwe/night-dancer/you-children-you.md) Topics: [parents](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/parents.md), [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md) > You cannot talk to people successfully if they think you are not interested in what they have to say or you have no respect for them. [Larry King](https://www.leafyquotes.com/larry-king.md) · [How to Talk to Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere](https://www.leafyquotes.com/larry-king/how-to-talk-to-anyone-anytime-anywhere.md) · p. 28 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/larry-king/how-to-talk-to-anyone-anytime-anywhere/you-cannot-talk.md) Topics: [conversation](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/conversation.md), [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md), [listening](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/listening.md) > “Your father,” I said. “What does he really want?” > > “What any father wants,” said Oxley. “The respect of his children.” > > I nearly said that not all fathers were worthy of respect, but I managed to keep my gob shut and anyway not everyone had a dad like mine. [Ben Aaronovitch](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch.md) · [Rivers of London](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/rivers-of-london.md) · p. 143 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/rivers-of-london/your-father-i-said.md) Topics: [parents](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/parents.md), [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md) > Now I know exactly how dangerous the forest can be. And I hope I never forget it. Just like Crow said, the world's filled with things I don't know about. All the plants and trees there, for instance. I'd never imagined that trees could be so weird and unearthly. I mean, the only plants I've ever really seen or touched till now are the city kind -neatly trimmed and cared-for bushes and trees. But the ones here -the ones living here -are totally different. They have a physical power, their breath grazing any humans who might chance by, their gaze zeroing in on the intruder like they've spotted their prey. Like they have some dark, prehistoric, magical powers. Like deep-sea creatures rule the ocean depths, in the forest trees reign supreme. If it wanted to, the forest could reject me-or swallow me up whole. A healthy amount of fear and respect might be a good idea. [Haruki Murakami](https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami.md) · [Kafka on the Shore](https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami/kafka-on-the-shore.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami/kafka-on-the-shore/now-i-know.md) Topics: [fear](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear.md), [nature](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/nature.md), [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md) > Often all we need to be civil with one another is the presence of a referee we don’t want thinking us fools. [Glen Cook](https://www.leafyquotes.com/glen-cook.md) · [Bitter Gold Hearts](https://www.leafyquotes.com/glen-cook/bitter-gold-hearts.md) · p. 238 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/glen-cook/bitter-gold-hearts/often-all-we-need.md) Topics: [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md) > “Take care, while you are young, that you can think in those days, ‘I never whitened a hair of her dear head—I never marked a sorrowful line in her face!’ For of all the many things that you can think of when you are a man, you had better have by you, Woolwich!” [Charles Dickens](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens.md) · [Bleak House](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/bleak-house.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/bleak-house/take-care-while.md) Topics: [parents](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/parents.md), [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md) > Now you think about this, too: you’re not charming, dashing, or debonair. You’re funny looking, as a matter of fact. You’re too busy to spare much time for me, and even if you did take me out night-clubbing somewhere, you’d be so out of place that I couldn’t enjoy it. But you do one thing: you let me feel that my rules are as worthwhile to me as yours are to you. When you ask me to do something, I know you won’t be hurt if I refuse. And if I do it, you don’t feel that you’ve scored a point in some kind of complex game. You don’t try to use me, cozen me, or change me. I take up as much room in the world, the way you see it, as you do. Do you have any idea of how rare a thing that is? [Algis Budrys](https://www.leafyquotes.com/algis-budrys.md) · [Rogue Moon](https://www.leafyquotes.com/algis-budrys/rogue-moon.md) · p. 127 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/algis-budrys/rogue-moon/now-you-think.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md) > There may be moments in your life when you have to choose between ‘being liked’ and what you really want to do. Imagine your future spouse is a vegan and does not enjoy being with people who eat meat. Could you imagine putting aside your beliefs and feelings, to show support, love and understanding for your partner’s? [Nigel Cumberland](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nigel-cumberland.md) · [100 Things Successful People Do](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nigel-cumberland/100-things-successful-people-do.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nigel-cumberland/100-things-successful-people-do/there-may-be-moments.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md), [veganism](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/veganism.md) > "Only good deeds demand respect." (chapter 15, p110) [Edwidge Danticat](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edwidge-danticat.md) · [Breath, Eyes, Memory](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edwidge-danticat/breath-eyes-memory.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edwidge-danticat/breath-eyes-memory/only-good-deeds.md) Topics: [kindness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/kindness.md), [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md) > I tell people that I’ve never been hurt by an honest question, and that’s true: it’s a cruel opinion that hurts, not a question. [Kate Bornstein](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kate-bornstein.md) · [Gender Outlaw](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kate-bornstein/gender-outlaw.md) · p. 9 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kate-bornstein/gender-outlaw/i-tell-people.md) Topics: [curiosity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/curiosity.md), [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md) > It was not fear that kept them from misusing what they had. It was self-respect. [Vonda N. McIntyre](https://www.leafyquotes.com/vonda-n-mcintyre.md) · [Dreamsnake](https://www.leafyquotes.com/vonda-n-mcintyre/dreamsnake.md) · p. 267 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/vonda-n-mcintyre/dreamsnake/it-was-not.md) Topics: [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md) > I see you laugh, and rightly so. What is this silly old fool rambling on about? Good for you. Never respect years, only deeds. [Tanith Lee](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee.md) · [Drinking Sapphire Wine](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/drinking-sapphire-wine.md) · p. 128 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/drinking-sapphire-wine/i-see-you.md) Topics: [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md) > ...we cannot endure being despised, or not being esteemed by any soul; and all the happiness of men consists in this esteem. [Blaise Pascal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/blaise-pascal.md) · [Pensees](https://www.leafyquotes.com/blaise-pascal/pensees.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/blaise-pascal/pensees/we-cannot-endure.md) Topics: [happiness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/happiness.md), [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md) > Making mock of another man's prayer is fool's work. [George RR Martin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin.md) · [A Dance with Dragons](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-dance-with-dragons.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-dance-with-dragons/making-mock-of-another.md) Topics: [religion](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/religion.md), [tolerance](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/tolerance.md), [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md) > Courtesy is a lady's armor. [George RR Martin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin.md) · [A Storm of Swords](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-storm-of-swords.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-storm-of-swords/courtesy-is-a-ladys.md) Topics: [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md) > Never dismiss anyone’s value until you know him. [Susan Cooper](https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-cooper.md) · [Greenwitch](https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-cooper/greenwitch.md) · p. 18 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-cooper/greenwitch/never-dismiss-anyones.md) Topics: [prejudice](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/prejudice.md), [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md) > Nobody admires anyone else without qualification. If they do they’re after an image, not a person. [Scott Lynch](https://www.leafyquotes.com/scott-lynch.md) · [The Republic of Thieves](https://www.leafyquotes.com/scott-lynch/the-republic-of-thieves.md) · p. 247 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/scott-lynch/the-republic-of-thieves/nobody-admires-anyone.md) Topics: [appearances](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/appearances.md), [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md) > How you deal with it I must and will leave to you, not out of despair or resignation but in deference to my conscience, that broken clock which I believe is now chiming one of its occasional right hours. I will not question your reasons. It is enough for you to tell me that you wish to keep this distance between us, and it will always be enough. Know that a single word will bring me running, but unless and until it pleases you to give it, I will expect nothing, force nothing, and contrive nothing contrary to your wishes. > > I desire you as deeply as I ever have, but I understand that the fervor of a desire is irrelevant to its justice. I want your heart on merit, in mutual trust, or not at all, because I cannot bear to see you made uneasy by me. Not for all the world would I do so again, and I leave it to you to tell me how to proceed, if and when you can, if and when you will. [Scott Lynch](https://www.leafyquotes.com/scott-lynch.md) · [The Republic of Thieves](https://www.leafyquotes.com/scott-lynch/the-republic-of-thieves.md) · p. 605 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/scott-lynch/the-republic-of-thieves/how-you-deal.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md) > True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning. [Alain de Botton](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alain-de-botton.md) · [The Consolations of Philosophy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alain-de-botton/the-consolations-of-philosophy.md) · p. 33 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alain-de-botton/the-consolations-of-philosophy/true-respectability-stems.md) Topics: [thinking](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/thinking.md), [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md) > I understand that mutual dissatisfaction is a factor in their collaboration. I imagine it isn’t a far step from mutual goals to mutual respect, and from there to love. [N. K. Jemisin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/n-k-jemisin.md) · [The Broken Kingdoms](https://www.leafyquotes.com/n-k-jemisin/the-broken-kingdoms.md) · p. 185 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/n-k-jemisin/the-broken-kingdoms/i-understand-that.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md) > The Old were always given the highest respect. [Lois Lowry](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lois-lowry.md) · [The Giver](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lois-lowry/the-giver.md) · p. 76 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lois-lowry/the-giver/the-old-were.md) Topics: [old age](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/old-age.md), [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md) > Respect only has meaning as respect for those with whom I do not agree. [Karen Armstrong](https://www.leafyquotes.com/karen-armstrong.md) · [A History of God](https://www.leafyquotes.com/karen-armstrong/a-history-of-god.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/karen-armstrong/a-history-of-god/respect-only-has.md) Topics: [tolerance](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/tolerance.md), [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md) > Society is organized on the principle that any individual who possesses certain social characteristics has a moral right to expect that others will value and treat him in an appropriate way. [Erving Goffman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erving-goffman.md) · [The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erving-goffman/the-presentation-of-self-in-everyday-life.md) · p. 13 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erving-goffman/the-presentation-of-self-in-everyday-life/society-is-organized.md) Topics: [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md) > You can’t respect other people’s individuality if you focus on your own individuality in a kind of abstract, isolated way. The point is that you are an individual inasmuch as you exist in a social matrix of others who respect your individuality and your right to make choices. That’s concrete individuality: an individuality that recognizes that it owes its existence to a kind of communal respect on the part of all the other individualities, and that it had better therefore respect them similarly. [China Miéville](https://www.leafyquotes.com/china-mieville.md) · [Perdido Street Station](https://www.leafyquotes.com/china-mieville/perdido-street-station.md) · p. 71 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/china-mieville/perdido-street-station/you-cant-respect.md) Topics: [identity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/identity.md), [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md), [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md) > But you should try to understand what they want out of life, and respect that, rather than projecting onto them what you think they should want out of life. [Brandon Sanderson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson.md) · [Oathbringer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson/oathbringer.md) · p. 366 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson/oathbringer/but-you-should.md) Topics: [tolerance](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/tolerance.md), [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md) > "In an era when everything can be surveiled, all we have left is politeness." [Neal Stephenson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neal-stephenson.md) · [The Diamond Age](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neal-stephenson/the-diamond-age.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neal-stephenson/the-diamond-age/in-an-era.md) Topics: [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md), [privacy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/privacy.md) > Whenever you meet anyone, no matter how briefly, do you acknowledge their being by giving them your full attention, or are you reducing them to a means to an end, a mere function or role. What is the quality of your relationship with the cashier at the supermarket, the parking attendant, the repair man, the customer? (Ch 8) [Eckhart Tolle](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eckhart-tolle.md) · [Stillness Speaks](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eckhart-tolle/stillness-speaks.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eckhart-tolle/stillness-speaks/whenever-you-meet.md) Topics: [relationships](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/relationships.md), [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md) > It is deeds not words which must purchase my affection and esteem. [Anne Brontë](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anne-bronte.md) · [The Tenant of Wildfell Hall](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anne-bronte/the-tenant-of-wildfell-hall.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anne-bronte/the-tenant-of-wildfell-hall/it-is-deeds.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [taking action](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/taking-action.md), [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md) > Forgetfulness is not to be purchased with a wish; and I cannot bestow my esteem on all who desire it, unless they deserve it too. [Anne Brontë](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anne-bronte.md) · [The Tenant of Wildfell Hall](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anne-bronte/the-tenant-of-wildfell-hall.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anne-bronte/the-tenant-of-wildfell-hall/forgetfulness-is-not.md) Topics: [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md) > A teacher is frequently the only adult in the pupil's environment who treats him with respect. [Bel Kaufman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bel-kaufman.md) · [Up the Down Staircase](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bel-kaufman/up-the-down-staircase.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bel-kaufman/up-the-down-staircase/a-teacher-is-frequently.md) Topics: [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md), [teachers](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/teachers.md) > Don't care about gods. Gods are irrelevant. What counts is people. What counts is having respect for each other. [Matthew Stover](https://www.leafyquotes.com/matthew-stover.md) · [Blade of Tyshalle](https://www.leafyquotes.com/matthew-stover/blade-of-tyshalle.md) · p. 75 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/matthew-stover/blade-of-tyshalle/dont-care-about.md) Topics: [god](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/god.md), [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md) > "I respect what is repectable," Tan'elkoth replied. "To ask for respect where none has been earned is childish maundering.And what is repectable, in the end, save service? Even your idol Jefferson is, in the end, measured by how well he served the species. The prize of individualism--its goal--is self-actualization, which is only another name for vanity. We do not admire men for achieving self-actualization; we admire self-actualization when its end result is a boon to humanity." [Matthew Stover](https://www.leafyquotes.com/matthew-stover.md) · [Blade of Tyshalle](https://www.leafyquotes.com/matthew-stover/blade-of-tyshalle.md) · p. 75 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/matthew-stover/blade-of-tyshalle/i-respect-what.md) Topics: [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md), [individualism](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/individualism.md) > I don't think, sir, that you have a right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience. [Charlotte Brontë](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charlotte-bronte.md) · [Jane Eyre](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charlotte-bronte/jane-eyre.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charlotte-bronte/jane-eyre/i-dont-think.md) Topics: [power](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power.md), [experience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/experience.md), [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md) > I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself. [Charlotte Brontë](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charlotte-bronte.md) · [Jane Eyre](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charlotte-bronte/jane-eyre.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charlotte-bronte/jane-eyre/i-care-for.md) Topics: [loneliness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/loneliness.md), [dignity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/dignity.md), [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md) > We should bow deeply before the orchid and the snail and join our palms reverently before the monarch butterfly and the magnolia tree. The feeling of respect for all species will help us recognize the noblest nature in ourselves. [Thich Nhat Hanh](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thich-nhat-hanh.md) · [The Sun My Heart](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thich-nhat-hanh/the-sun-my-heart.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thich-nhat-hanh/the-sun-my-heart/we-should-bow.md) Topics: [nature](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/nature.md), [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md) > Earthenware is like people, it needs to be well treated. [José Saramago](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jose-saramago.md) · [The Cave](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jose-saramago/the-cave.md) · p. 21 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jose-saramago/the-cave/earthenware-is-like.md) Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md), [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md) > The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none. [Charles Dickens](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens.md) · [Sketches by Boz](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/sketches-by-boz.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/sketches-by-boz/the-civility-which.md) Topics: [money](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/money.md), [poverty](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/poverty.md), [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md) > If you give way, you will instantly have to meet some greater demand, as having been frightened into obedience in the first instance; while a firm refusal will make them clearly understand that they must treat you more as equals. [Thucydides](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thucydides.md) · [History of the Peloponnesian War](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thucydides/history-of-the-peloponnesian-war.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thucydides/history-of-the-peloponnesian-war/if-you-give.md) Topics: [courage](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/courage.md), [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md) > And it is certain that those who do not yield to their equals, who keep terms with their superiors, and are moderate towards their inferiors, on the whole succeed best. [Thucydides](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thucydides.md) · [History of the Peloponnesian War](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thucydides/history-of-the-peloponnesian-war.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thucydides/history-of-the-peloponnesian-war/and-it-is-certain.md) Topics: [success and failure](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/success-and-failure.md), [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md), [moderation](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/moderation.md) > I wish that these barbarians would rise up and teach us a lesson, so that we would learn to respect them. [J. M. Coetzee](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-m-coetzee.md) · [Waiting for the Barbarians](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-m-coetzee/waiting-for-the-barbarians.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-m-coetzee/waiting-for-the-barbarians/i-wish-that.md) Topics: [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md), [colonialism](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/colonialism.md) > Mr. Weathereye had always said that civility could not possibly be resented by any civilized person; that if resentment were offered, it was a sure sign of loutdom. [Sheri S. Tepper](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper.md) · [The Margarets](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/the-margarets.md) · p. 132 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/the-margarets/mr-weathereye-had.md) Topics: [culture](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/culture.md), [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md) > Theoretical liberties, however, we are too often assured at the expense of actual civilities, and as civilities were lost, litigation emerged as a way of life with a consequent reduction in real liberties for all persons except lawyers, who, like mercenaries, are profiteers of discord. Persons were actually allowed, by law, under the guise of free expression, to shout into the faces of those who held differing opinions and to intrude upon their privacy. Liberty has two legs. Vigilance is certainly one, but civility is as certainly the other. [Sheri S. Tepper](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper.md) · [Six Moon Dance](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/six-moon-dance.md) · p. 32 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/six-moon-dance/theoretical-liberties-however.md) Topics: [freedom](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom.md), [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md), [lawyers](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/lawyers.md) > Which was what love was: unmotivated respect. [Toni Morrison](https://www.leafyquotes.com/toni-morrison.md) · [Paradise](https://www.leafyquotes.com/toni-morrison/paradise.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/toni-morrison/paradise/which-was-what.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md) > She wants what everybody wants — to be loved and cared for, to be part of something beautiful and fine, to have the respect of those she admires. [Orson Scott Card](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card.md) · [Children Of The Mind](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/children-of-the-mind.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/children-of-the-mind/she-wants-what.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md) > Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in. [Harper Lee](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harper-lee.md) · [To Kill a Mockingbird](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harper-lee/to-kill-a-mockingbird.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harper-lee/to-kill-a-mockingbird/atticus-had-said.md) Topics: [conversation](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/conversation.md), [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md) > "It takes two to make a very great career: The man who is great, and the man—almost rarer—who is great enough to see greatness and say so." [Ayn Rand](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand.md) · [The Fountainhead](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand/the-fountainhead.md) · p. 512 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand/the-fountainhead/it-takes-two.md) Topics: [success and failure](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/success-and-failure.md), [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md) > A man wants his virility regarded, a woman wants her femininity appreciated, however indirect and subtle the indications of regard and appreciation. On Winter they will not exist. One is respected and judged only as a human being. It is an appalling experience. [Ursula K. Le Guin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin.md) · [The Left Hand of Darkness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/the-left-hand-of-darkness.md) · p. 95 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/the-left-hand-of-darkness/a-man-wants.md) Topics: [women](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/women.md), [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md), [masculinity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/masculinity.md) > "Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?" [Ayn Rand](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand.md) · [Atlas Shrugged](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand/atlas-shrugged.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand/atlas-shrugged/have-you-ever.md) Topics: [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md), [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md) > I'm either a mutant or a cripple, and I refuse to be a cripple. People pity cripples, but they're afraid of mutants […] Fear implies respect. [Dean Koontz](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dean-koontz.md) · [One Door Away from Heaven](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dean-koontz/one-door-away-from-heaven.md) · p. 4 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dean-koontz/one-door-away-from-heaven/im-either-a-mutant.md) Topics: [fear](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear.md), [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md) > We always lose the friendship of those who lose our esteem. [Joseph Joubert](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-joubert.md) · [The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-joubert/the-notebooks-of-joseph-joubert.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-joubert/the-notebooks-of-joseph-joubert/we-always-lose.md) Topics: [friendship](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship.md), [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md) > For in spite of ourselves we respect those whom we see respected. [Joseph Joubert](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-joubert.md) · [The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-joubert/the-notebooks-of-joseph-joubert.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-joubert/the-notebooks-of-joseph-joubert/for-in-spite.md) Topics: [conformity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/conformity.md), [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md) > To be capable of respect is, in these days, almost as rare as to be worthy of it. [Joseph Joubert](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-joubert.md) · [The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-joubert/the-notebooks-of-joseph-joubert.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-joubert/the-notebooks-of-joseph-joubert/to-be-capable.md) Topics: [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md) > The man who esteems himself as he ought, and no more than he ought, seldom fails to obtain from other people all the esteem that he himself thinks due. He desires no more than is due to him, and he rests upon it with complete satisfaction. [Adam Smith](https://www.leafyquotes.com/adam-smith.md) · [The Theory of Moral Sentiments](https://www.leafyquotes.com/adam-smith/the-theory-of-moral-sentiments.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/adam-smith/the-theory-of-moral-sentiments/the-man-who-esteems.md) Topics: [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md), [self-esteem](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/self-esteem.md) > A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love. [Joseph Conrad](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-conrad.md) · [Under Western Eyes](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-conrad/under-western-eyes.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-conrad/under-western-eyes/a-mans-real.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md) > The highest thing in a man is not his god. It's that in him which knows the reverence due a god. You are my highest reverence. [Ayn Rand](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand.md) · [We the Living](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand/we-the-living.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand/we-the-living/the-highest-thing.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md) > A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest form of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal in satisfying his vices. And it all comes from lying — to others and to yourself. [Fyodor Dostoyevsky](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fyodor-dostoyevsky.md) · [The Brothers Karamazov](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fyodor-dostoyevsky/the-brothers-karamazov.md) · p. 44 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fyodor-dostoyevsky/the-brothers-karamazov/a-man-who.md) Topics: [lies](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/lies.md), [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md) > If love is suspicious, esteem is trustful; and love will never exist in an honest heart without esteem, for every one loves in another the qualities which he himself holds in honour. [Jean Jacques Rousseau](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau.md) · [Emile; or On Education](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education/if-love-is-suspicious.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [trust](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/trust.md), [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md)