Quotes about respect

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.

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.

"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."

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.

"Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?"

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.

We always lose the friendship of those who lose our esteem.

For in spite of ourselves we respect those whom we see respected.

To be capable of respect is, in these days, almost as rare as to be worthy of it.

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.

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.

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.