I hold the door for the ladies – I’m a gent.

Well, they’re Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of walking right in for coffee. But they wouldn’t dream of interrupting you at golf.

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 respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.

Politeness is, you know, is a wonderful thing. Manners are in fact, really important thing. But remember, Jesus didn’t have many manners as we now know.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

I don’t want to say anything negative about anybody or anything or anybody’s political beliefs. I’ve never done that. I’ve never tried to get involved in those things.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

I deserve respect for the things I did not do.

Since many of you do not belong to the Catholic Church and others are non-believers, from the bottom of my heart I give this silent blessing to each and every one of you, respecting the conscience of each one of you but knowing that each one of you is a child of God.

I hate victims who respect their executioners.

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.

Well, I have great respect for Senator Hirono.

You gotta understand: I believe a woman should praise the man, the king. If you holding it down for your woman, I feel like the woman should praise. And the man should praise the queen.

And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond; that you do what you say you’re going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don’t know them and even if you don’t agree with them.

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

We don’t need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.

I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.

If he invited you out, he’s got to pay.

I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.

I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I’ll tell the world right now, brings out the best in me. I’m gonna tell ya, that’s one helluva man, and God bless him.

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.

It’s my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane… There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

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.

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.

Respect the burden.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

You’re morally tainted if you don’t treat both the accuser and the accused with fairness and with respect, and with due process.

We should not look down on our first ancestors.

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

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.

I don’t do any vulgar movements.

I’m over being a pop star. I don’t wanna be a hot girl. I wanna be iconic. And I feel like I’ve accomplished a lot. I feel like I’m highly respected, which is more important than any award or any amount of records. And I feel like there comes a point when being a pop star is not enough.

In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you’ve become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that’s the height of intelligence.

I don’t envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.

People ask, ‚Should I call you Sir Hopkins?‘ But I say, ‚No. Call me Tony,‘ because it’s too much of a lift-up.

Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I’m very grateful for the support and kindness that we’ve gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband’s policies or what have you, they care about children and that’s been good to see.

My mother always told me it wasn’t polite to ask what people make.

There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

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

The notion that before you even set out to go to Thailand, you say, ‚I’m not interested,‘ or you’re unwilling to try things that people take so personally and are so proud of and so generous with, I don’t understand that, and I think it’s rude. You’re at Grandma’s house, you eat what Grandma serves you.

Respect is one of life’s greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don’t have that?

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

I didn’t do anything at the Queen, whom I admire.

How do leaders serve their people? They may pay good wages and treat employees with respect.

A grown man should always carry cash, right? I don’t know who told me, but someone told me that a long time ago, and the biggest turnoff is when a guy doesn’t have cash on him.

I think we understand that for the Court to work well, we have to not only respect but genuinely like each other.

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.

I don’t compare myself to anyone else; I don’t make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that’s okay by me.