Take me seriously. Take me and my role seriously. Take my talent seriously.

I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

Respect the burden.

It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

I think, under President Obama, who was a really bright guy – I didn’t agree with a lot of his politics – but we got to the point internationally where our friends didn’t trust us. They were confused. And our enemies didn’t quite respect us.

Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

When I’m getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

I believe that I often bring out the best in somebody’s talents.

God didn’t make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.

We’re one of the only animals in the world that don’t really think of ourselves as animals, but we are animals, and we must respect our fellow animals.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Honoring the priesthood fosters respect, respect promotes reverence, and reverence invites revelation.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

We learned about gratitude and humility – that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean… and we were taught to value everyone’s contribution and treat everyone with respect.

At 15 years of age, I left school to practice the profession of Office Boy in a business firm in Salem, Oregon.

In hip-hop, there’s not a lot of love. There’s not a lot of love being spread. It’s always like ‚I’m stuntin‘ on you raps, or I’m better than you raps.‘ It’s not a lot of ‚Yo man, I idolize you raps.‘

As a kid from Compton, you can get all the success in the world and still question your worth.

I don’t measure my success anymore by the Grammys. I can’t because I’ll just end up crushed.

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

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.

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

There is no employing class, no working class, no farming class. You may pigeonhole a man or woman as a farmer or a worker or a professional man or an employer or even a banker. But the son of the farmer will be a doctor or a worker or even a banker, and his daughter a teacher. The son of a worker will be an employer – or maybe president.

As a songwriter, you respect and appreciate the writings of other people, and I often get asked, are there songs out there I wish I’d written? Yes. There’s many of them!

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put – without delay, and with tenderness – back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

I’m so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!

One of my proudest moments is I didn’t sell my soul for the sake of popularity.

I think I have a certain respect for people, you know. And I guess a lot of times I expect that respect to go both ways.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

As social animals we humans are very sensitive to our rank and position within any group. We can measure our status by the attention and respect we receive.

I came to Hollywood and within a decade I was one of the biggest action stars of all time.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

Self-worth comes from one thing – thinking that you are worthy.

He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.

A company is a group organized to create a product or service, and it is only as good as its people and how excited they are about creating. I do want to recognize a ton of super-talented people. I just happen to be the face of the companies.

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

Don’t ever criticize yourself. Don’t go around all day long thinking, ‚I’m unattractive, I’m slow, I’m not as smart as my brother.‘ God wasn’t having a bad day when he made you… If you don’t love yourself in the right way, you can’t love your neighbour. You can’t be as good as you are supposed to be.

I respect Chris Brown. I’d like to call myself a friend – I don’t know if I’m allowed to do that.

A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.

I grew up with my career being thrust upon me. It took me a long time to believe that I could do more than that one aspect of our business.

To all the musicians, to the Academy, with all due respect, reggaeton is part of our Latin culture. And its representing as much as any other genre at the worldwide level.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it’s egotism.

If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.

Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

Like it or not, there are a lot of dance teachers in this country who respect me, whether they personally like me or not.

I always thought it was wrong for me to take credit for the work that I did. I don’t think that anymore.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

If you make yourself indispensable to your employer, he is not going to part with you in a hurry no matter what it costs him.

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

When you’re in hell, you forget how great you really are because you’re suffering and you forget the great things you’ve done.

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.

If you just needed the skills to pass the bar, two years would be enough. But if you think of law as a learned profession, then a third year is an opportunity for, on the one hand, public service and practice experience, but on the other, also to take courses that round out the law that you didn’t have time to do.

Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It’s the fear that we’re not good enough.

I now make my living by being impolite. I am clumsy at it.

In the ’60s and ’70s and early ’80s, the trainers would grind you, and eventually they would break something – they would break an ankle in ways that it would heal. It was just the way of the business, to ensure that you learned respect for wrestling.