35 Quotes About Admiration and Respect

Having respect is a requirement when it comes to being confronted with an onslaught of challenges. From sharing your opposing views or encouraging a message of love, these quotes about admiration and respect are perfect examples to the type of behavior that is needed to make a positive change.

“Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.”

“Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate”

“Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.”

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

“He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.”

“He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking.”

“He who wants a rose must respect the thorn.”

“I don’t have to agree with you to like you or respect you.”

“I think if you like somebody you have to tell them. It might be embarrassing to say it, but you will never regret stepping up.”

“If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.”

“If you’re respectful by habit, constantly honoring the worthy, four things increase: long life, beauty, happiness, strength.”

“In my day, we didn’t have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.”

“It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others.”

“It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it.”

“Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.”

“Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.”

“People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.”

“Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.”

“Respect is love in plain clothes.”

“Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won’t taste good.”

“Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.”

“The best philosophy is to do one’s duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one’s lot; bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it.”

“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.”

“There is an innocence in admiration: it occurs in one who has not yet realized that they might one day be admired.”

“There is no respect for others without humility in one’s self.”

“This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.”

“To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.”

“Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.”

“We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.”

“When a man finds the woman he really loves, the one he respects and wants to call wife, there is nothing on earth he won’t do for her. No mountain he won’t hike.”

“When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.”

“Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.”

“You have to have personality and show that you are respectful and that you have responsibility and dedication to what you are doing.”

“You should be able to voice your opinion and respect the voice of the other side. You should be willing to educate yourself and know what it is you’re dealing with.”

“You should respect each other and refrain from disputes; you should not, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like milk and water, mingle together.”

Showing admiration to the closest ones in your life such as your partner can have an incredibly monumental effect on their life.