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I'm actually not a big fan of the word hope. I think it's a depressing word. I don't want to hope - I want to know. Like I don't hope there's a God, I know there's a God.
— Kelly Clarkson
I've never fallen into what I consider to be a trap of trying to figure out something analytically that could be a very popular film. I would hope my enthusiasm could match up with something with that potential.
— Jonathan Demme
When you deprive people of their right to live in dignity, to hope for a better future, to have control over their lives, when you deprive them of that choice, then you expect them to fight for these rights.
— Queen Rania of Jordan
The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
We hope President Obama will now respect the will of the people, change course, and commit to making the changes they are demanding. To the extent he is willing to do this, we are ready to work with him.
— John Boehner
House and Senate Republicans are now united in adopting earmark bans. We hope President Obama will follow through on his support for an earmark ban by pressing Democratic leaders to join House and Senate Republicans in taking this critical step to restore public trust.
— John Boehner
I always hope that my music can inspire someone, the same way other artists inspire me.
— Kelly Rowland
In English, my name means hope. In Spanish, it means too many letters. It means sadness. It means waiting. It is like the number nine, a muddy color.
— Sandra Cisneros
If we have learned nothing else from the 20th century, we should at least have grasped that the more perfect the answer, the more terrifying its consequences. Incremental improvements upon unsatisfactory circumstances are the best that we can hope for, and probably all we should seek.
— Tony Judt
Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
— Sammy Davis, Jr.
Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future.
— Michael Palin
Anytime someone says your God is ugly and you release your God and join their God, there is no hope for your freedom until you once more believe in your own concept of the 'deity.'
— John Henrik Clarke
There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.
— Emma Goldman
It's never enjoyable watching yourself. Because you're never as good looking as you hope you are. You're not expecting to be Penelope Cruz... but I'm a female of the species. I have my hang-ups and all of that.
— Anne-Marie Duff
I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.
— Ogden Nash
There's a set of rules out there somewhere that says it all ends by 40. I hope to be able to defy that because I truly love my work.
— Naomi Watts
For some reason, it seems like pop writers, it's like they just get worse or something over time. And then you're really jealous of movie directors whose careers seem to grow and they'll be 70 years old and still doing these incredible jobs. I'm going to reverse that, I hope.
— James Mercer
I spread the message of hope and of unity. That's what gets me up in the morning. I can tell you what is wrong, but I can't tell you how to fix it. I'm a raptivist, not a politician. I deal in hope.
— Chuck D
I hope that I'll be able to have kids with a mate. But I don't know if that's in the plan.
— Jennifer Grey
Right now I'm not involved with anybody, but I hope by 75 I will be again.
— Stevie Nicks
I hope they get something of interest out of it, but I'd rather they all hate it and I like it, instead of vice versa... I make films to please myself first, and if the audience likes them, all the better.
— Terry Zwigoff
Asia is still dominated by skyscrapers. I hope that, in European cities, it will become a declining trend. They were almost never necessary.
— Rem Koolhaas
Play is the best natural resource in a creative economy. Kids need more of it. It is the work of childhood. We hope to intrinsically change the opinion that play is not just a luxury but an absolute necessity for kids' lives.
— Darell Hammond
I hope my organization will not be around in 10 years, because at a national, state, and community level, we will have evolved into a society that cares about children and the need for play.
— Darell Hammond
You believe that easily which you hope for earnestly.
— Terence
Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
— Oliver Goldsmith
There's a lot of great people out here, I just appreciate it and hope everybody has had fun because I've enjoyed my ride.
— Fuzzy Zoeller
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
— Thornton Wilder
Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.
— Norman Cousins
It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
I hope people remember me as a guy who brought magic to the people. You know, pushed the boundaries of wonder.
— David Blaine
At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about.
— Janis Ian
I hope that people learn from my mistake and I hope that the fans forgive me.
— Rafael Palmeiro
I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recognize in the way that they felt about their country. It's to do with the world we live in. That world is a brutal one and full of war. It's also full of many wonderful things and love and hope.
— P. J. Harvey
Here is just the beginning of a list of skills that exam results cannot possibly hope to reflect: interpersonal skills, the ability to entertain, how articulate we are as speakers, our ability to work as part of a team, the ability to deal with challenges and invention.
— Alexandra Adornetto
I hope in God, I pray on, and look yet for the answer. They are not converted yet, but they will be.
— George Muller
I hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can't physically entertain any longer. It's what I was born to do, and I love this profession.
— Bette Midler
I can only hope the federal aid made available today will be sufficient in our recovery efforts, and pray that our citizens continue to be safe from the fallout of this dangerous natural disaster.
— Mike Rogers
Every time I try to set something in Chicago, I get intimidated by 'Augie March.' It's easy to set something in Indianapolis - we don't have 'Augie March' here. But I love writing about Chicago, and I love being there and imagining lives in Chicago. I hope to set something there in the future, but it's intimidating.
— John Green
That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque.
— Helen Garner
You know, this is a war of ideology, a war of thoughts and of faith. And we need people to really stand for faith and trust, not hope and change.
— Sharron Angle
Most American fascists are enthusiastically supporting the war effort. They are doing this even in those cases where they hope to have profitable connections with German chemical firms after the war ends.
— Henry A. Wallace
I'm not really sure what it was, the best moment. You always hope it's to come.
— Bryan Ferry
You just hope that you will get the opportunity to do what you love and pay your bills, and that is being a success as an actor.
— Debra Messing
I would hope that my writing's cleaner than it was when I started.
— Nora Roberts
If one seeks to analyze experiences and reactions to the first postwar years, I hope one may say without being accused of bias that it is easier for the victor than for the vanquished to advocate peace.
— Gustav Stresemann
I hope that I'm sexy in a different kind of way than I think that a lot of girls are right now. I think a lot of girls in the public eye, especially musical artists, are just kind of objectified a little bit and wearing super-skimpy outfits and leaving nothing to the imagination.
— Emmy Rossum
I think that hope, that ability to envision, to imagine a better way, and then to apply yourself to it, is the way to climb out of a hole, is the way to build a better life, is the way to build a better community and a better country.
— Deval Patrick
It's a different outlook, and one that I understand. When you are a former member of the Warsaw Pact, when you have lived behind the Berlin Wall, when you have experienced the communist systems that existed in these countries, for them, the West represents hope.
— Jean-Pierre Raffarin
I feel blessed to be here representing our country and carrying out th research of scientists around the world... I hope you could feel the positive energy that beamed to the whole planet as we glided over.
— Laurel Clark
I'm direct, I'm unpretentious and I'm pretty dogged, and I hope I've got a capacity to laugh at myself and not take myself too seriously.
— John Howard
I was cleaning out the pigsty at a farm in Wales, where my mother had rented a room, when the results of my final school exam were handed to me by the postman, along with the news that I had a state scholarship to Oxford. I had waited for this letter for so many weeks that I had abandoned hope, deciding that I had failed ignominiously.
— Nina Bawden
If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.
— Paul Ricoeur
You have to find hope. Hope is such a shape shifter. You tend to look in the rearview mirror for hope, but when it's gone, you have to look forward. You have to get in the van and keep driving on.
— Jonathan Evison
We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck.
— Elizabeth Bibesco
The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.
— Bill Frist
If we are to believe that our immigration laws simply have no value, as our current policies would have us believe, should we then simply throw them all out, the entire lot of immigration law? I hope not.
— John Linder
Hope and wishes for all that delights will sour in the midst of action not taken and words unsaid.
— Maximillian Degenerez
I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met... He's the leader of a small group of people who hope to cure a sick world, and I hope my book can help in some small way.
— Tracy Kidder
I hope that energy-efficient LED light bulbs will help reduce energy use and lower the cost of lighting worldwide.
— Shuji Nakamura
Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.
— Wilfred Owen
Through the outreach that I have done, through platforms, I hope to unify Singaporeans because at the end of the day, Singapore is our home. We share a common destiny, and I think all of us work together for the benefit of our country.
— Tony Tan
For generations, America has served as a beacon of hope and freedom for those outside her borders, and as a land of limitless opportunity for those risking everything to seek a better life. Their talents and contributions have continued to enrich our country.
— Spencer Bachus
As our values are the core to who we are as human beings, they are also the easiest way to identify and connect with others in meaningful ways. Think about it - most political campaigns are based around values. Barack Obama's 2008 election campaign galvanized millions of youth behind two very clear values - hope and change.
— Adam Braun
Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed.
— Jim Wallis
I still read romance, and I read suspense. I read them both. And part of it is, I like stories with strong characters, and I like stories where there's closure at the end. And I like stories where there's hope. That's a kind of empowerment. I think romance novels are very empowering, and I think suspense novels are, too.
— Lisa Gardner
Fishing is very meditative; you need to be able to give up control and cast out the line and then hope for the best, so in that way, it's quite like acting.
— Laura Donnelly
Can I just tell you, I think it's the most beautiful thing about young people today, it gives me so much hope for the future, that they don't really recognize race the way my generation does.
— Viola Davis
It is sound judgment to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star.
— Arthur Eddington
If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food.
— Eamon de Valera
Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.
— Lauren Oliver
What I hope to do is create a play that investigates the ongoing violence toward women and children in the world, and searches for some kind of answer to the question, 'What Can We Do?'
— Marsha Norman
Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out.
— Luigi Pirandello
You can try to reach an audience, but you just write what comes out of you and you just hope that it is accepted. You do not write specifically to a generation.
— Leon Uris
How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
What are the Democrats, the party of Jim Matheson, telling them? The message of the Democrats is that the Amercian dream is over. 'The government is all you have. Give up your dreams, and the government will save you, the government will heal you, the government will be your hope and change.' We know here in Utah, none of that is true.
— Mia Love
Ideally, I'm also sending a message that everything passes, even hope, and sometimes you have to be patient while you wait for it to come back around again.
— Heather Donahue
We can live with lots of things, but we can't live without imagination, we can't live without hope.
— Ariel Dorfman
My intention is to get more involved in social projects so I can give people a message of hope.
— Marta
When I was in elementary school, I used to write letters to myself. I'd write letters and go 'Dear Kristen-at-16-years-old, happy birthday. I hope you're doing something.'
— Kristin Kreuk
The sparrow that is twittering on the edge of my balcony is calling up to me this moment a world of memories that reach over half my lifetime, and a world of hope that stretches farther than any flight of sparrows.
— Donald G. Mitchell
By definition, intelligence deals with the unclear, the unknown, the deliberately hidden. What the enemies of the United States hope to deny we work to reveal.
— George Tenet
You have to see the human being in the enemy. If there is potential for change, there is still hope.
— Deborah Ellis
I'm an artist. So if acting doesn't work out, which I hope it does, I'm probably going to go into graphic design or something like that.
— Gabriel Basso
A degree of self-awareness is extremely valuable... I hope I have that going forward.
— Nick McDonell
Whether it's raising the minimum wage, fixing our broken immigration system or supporting an economic climate that gives our businesses that chance to succeed, I hope to continue to fight these important battles on behalf of my constituents.
— Joseph P. Kennedy III
Theater isn't there to provide answers. Only possibilities. I just ask the questions. But I believe hope comes from the fact that there is a potential for redemption. At the core, that's what matters in the theater I'm attracted to. Do we dare to hope? Do we allow ourselves to hope?
— Joe Mantello
If we don't hope, if we don't stay positive - at least about love, or finding love - then the rest of life becomes really just painful to think about, because for the most part, you know, day-to-day stuff is monotonous.
— Nev Schulman
It is the earnest hope of our people that the world may see the day when all nuclear weapons are abolished.
— Eisaku Sato
I hope young athletes can imitate my good side only, not the bad side.
— Taufik Hidayat
I hope in time N. H. as well as the other States will feel the importance of Sovereignty.
— William Whipple
Hope is a talent like any other.
— Storm Jameson
Over the course of my career, I have come to accept that some of my more provocative work courts controversy, and as an artist, I value the discourse that arises from this. I can only hope for this discourse to be informed by fact, so that whether you love my work or hate it, you give it, and me, the benefit of the truth.
— Terry Richardson
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, like other countries in the region, rejects the acquisition of nuclear weapons by anyone, especially nuclear weapons in the Middle East region. We hope that such weapons will be banned or eliminated from the region by every country in the region.
— Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
I am a very frank person and that's how I hope to remain. What you see is what you get.
— Fan Bingbing
I've realized the extraordinary power of sports to heal, unite and inspire. I believe the Olympics will serve as the ultimate platform to provide positive changes and I hope to inspire all of Japan through my strong showing there.
— Kohei Uchimura
For he who has health has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
— Owen Arthur
In the factory we make cosmetics in the drugstore we sell hope. 
— Charles Revson
No one recognizes me. And I hope that I can always go out without being recognized. Maybe that limits you in some way but I like to be able to pull my hair back in a ponytail and get groceries without anyone noticing.
— Susanna Thompson
I hope I'm an individual. I suppose an eccentric is a super individual.
— Margaret Rutherford
Hope raises no dust.
— Paul Eluard
We hoped against hope that what we had been doing was enough to prevent a riot. It was not enough.
— Jerome Cavanagh
I'd never thought much about a series, because I liked the idea of picking a script I liked with a character I thought I could sustain for an hour. In a series, you live with one character day in and day out - and you only hope it will be one that will not drive you crazy.
— Elizabeth Montgomery
Part of the power of all storytelling is reassurance, offering hope to those sat in the darkness, that good can succeed and wrongdoing fail.
— Charles Sturridge
I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.
— Paulo Coelho
If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
— Maya Angelou
Most good relationships are built on mutual trust and respect.
— Mona Sutphen
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
— Richard Bach
Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.
— Laurence Sterne
In finding love, I think it's important to be patient. In being in a relationship, I think it's important to be honest, to communicate, to respect and trust, and to strive to give more than you take.
— Kina Grannis
We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn't a matter of political correctness. It's a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith. 
— Barack Obama
Although I have a lot of close female friends in my life, my number one is still my mom. Without her, I wouldn't have the values that I have and see the world the way that I do today. She taught me how to appreciate and respect women. She taught me chivalry and how to love a woman and respect their feelings and emotions.
— Shemar Moore
When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.
— Dalai Lama
The biggest ingredient in a best friend is someone whose actions you respect and who you can truly be yourself around.
— Renee Olstead
Our parents deserve our honor and respect for giving us life itself. Beyond this they almost always made countless sacrifices as they cared for and nurtured us through our infancy and childhood, provided us with the necessities of life, and nursed us through physical illnesses and the emotional stresses of growing up.
— Ezra Taft Benson
There are lots of people I admire and respect, but I don't necessarily want to be like them. I'm too happy being myself.
— James D'arcy
We don't need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.
— Taylor Swift
Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
— Vince Lombardi
Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.
— Clint Eastwood
I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
— Jackie Robinson
The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It's been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It's a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game.
— Michael Jordan
There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.
— Orison Swett Marden
Treat everyone with respect and kindness. Period. No exceptions.
— Kiana Tom
A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.
— Billy Graham
Prejudice is sinful. All blood flows red. And the most harmful and foolish kind of prejudice is prejudice against yourself. Every woman is your sister, and every woman needs her sisters. So try to give other women the courtesy of your compassion, respect, and forgiveness. Love yourself despite - and because of - your flaws.
— Jewell Parker Rhodes
Be kind, don't judge, and have respect for others. If we can all do this, the world would be a better place. The point is to teach this to the next generation.
— Jasmine Guinness
Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.
— Benjamin E. Mays
I realize that men and women of the military go out and sacrifice their lives and put their selves in harm's way for my freedom of speech and my freedoms in this country, and my freedom to take a seat or take a knee, so I have the utmost respect for them, and I think what I did was taken out of context and spun a different way.
— Colin Kaepernick
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.
— Michelle Obama
Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.
— Barack Obama
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.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
If you want to be a great leader, remember to treat all people with respect at all times. For one, because you never know when you'll need their help. And two, because it's a sign you respect people, which all great leaders do.
— Simon Sinek
I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.
— Malcolm X
If we are not free, no one will respect us.
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
I'm kind of a good girl - and I'm not. I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I'm a bad girl because I like to tease. I know that I have sex appeal in my deck of cards. But I like to get people thinking. That's what the stories in my music do.
— Katy Perry
Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.
— Ingrid Newkirk
I believe that working with good people matters because then the work environment is good. If there is a sense of respect and belief among the people you work with, that is when good work is done.
— Ranbir Kapoor
When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
— Lao Tzu
I call horses 'divine mirrors' - they reflect back the emotions you put in. If you put in love and respect and kindness and curiosity, the horse will return that.
— Allan Hamilton
Be loyal to those who are loyal to you. And respect everyone, even your enemies and competition.
— John Cena
Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.
— Orhan Pamuk
Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.
— Stephen Covey
In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.
— Albert Camus
Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness and respect for authority is the price that each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
— Vince Lombardi
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
— Louis D. Brandeis
I accept you, and you get the same respect from me whether you are black, white, gay straight, Asian, bisexual, Australian, tall, fat, whatever it is. We are all people, and I look at the people of the world the same way, as my brothers and sisters.
— Nash Grier
China, with her five thousand years of history, her vast territory and her enormous population stands like a mountain peak among the nations of the world. Her contribution to the civilization of mankind is imperishable. She has been a keen lover of peace; she has had a deep respect for international justice.
— Chiang Kai-shek
Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
The true mark of professionalism is the ability to respect everyone else for their styles and always find something positive in every dining experience and highlight it in your thoughts and words.
— Johnny Iuzzini
Respect your parents. What they tell you is true. Hard work, dedication and faith will get you anything. Imagination will drive itself. You can get anything you want, but you have to have faith behind all your ideas. Stick to your goals and have an undying faith.
— Russell Simmons
One thing I've learned through all the ups and downs is that if you're doing things right, then you have a core group of people. Not just a core group like your homies or your buddies, but a group of people that has a good influence on you, who you respect and admire, and you know that if they're on your side, you're doing something right.
— Hope Solo
We will not agree on every issue. But let us respect those differences and respect one another. Let us recognize that we do not serve an ideology or a political party we serve the people. 
— John Lynch
True security is based on people's welfare - on a thriving economy, on strong public health and education programmes, and on fundamental respect for our common humanity. Development, peace, disarmament, reconciliation and justice are not separate from security; they help to underpin it.
— Ban Ki-moon
I've been so lucky to work with such great people: people that are such hard workers and have such a respect and appreciation for one another.
— Blake Lively
I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.
— Taylor Swift
Our deep respect for the land and its harvest is the legacy of generations of farmers who put food on our tables, preserved our landscape, and inspired us with a powerful work ethic.
— James H. Douglas, Jr.
I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Different people have different opinions, and it's okay to respect all of them.
— Juan Pablo Galavis
I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place.
— Maya Angelou
We all have goals: We want to matter. We want to be important. We want to have freedom and power to pursue our creative work. We want respect from our peers and recognition for our accomplishments. Not out of vanity or selfishness, but of an earnest desire to fulfill our personal potential.
— Ryan Holiday
As you get older, you grow and mature, and that should never stop. As soon as you stop growing, you're done living. I'll always be growing, forever learning, forever taking in advice from people I deeply respect.
— Odell Beckham, Jr.
Climate change does not respect border; it does not respect who you are - rich and poor, small and big. Therefore, this is what we call 'global challenges,' which require global solidarity.
— Ban Ki-moon
I'm the one person who wears the words 'hustle, loyalty, respect' on my T-shirts and merchandise. My audience is children. It's very flattering to see a kid wear your T-shirt; it's even more flattering to have a dad come up to you and say, 'I watch you with my kid. Keep doing what you're doing. You're a role model for my son.'
— John Cena
Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.
— Thomas S. Monson
Cooperation and respect for each other will advance the cause of human rights worldwide. Confrontation, vilification, and double standards will not.
— Robert Mugabe
I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.
— Tupac Shakur
We respect our elders. There is wisdom that comes from experience, and I am not going to stop learning from wise counsel.
— Marcia Fudge
When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom.
— John Gray
True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.
— Ralph W. Sockman
I think the most important thing in life is self-love, because if you don't have self-love, and respect for everything about your own body, your own soul, your own capsule, then how can you have an authentic relationship with anyone else?
— Shailene Woodley
We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.
— George Santayana
My one thing is respect. I don't care about anything else. You should respect everyone around you - the people who work for you, peers. Be classy.
— Charli XCX
The things I do, I do from the heart and out of love and respect for our planet and all living things. And I draw my courage from my love for justice and truth, and I calm my fears by comforting those who are more scared than me. And I try to do my best to make the world a better place, one small action at a time, as good as I can.
— Q'orianka Kilcher
Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
— Jackie Robinson
America wants its respect.
— Tupac Shakur
The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
— William Lyon Phelps
I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I'm a bad girl because I like to tease.
— Katy Perry
We shall listen, not lecture; learn, not threaten. We will enhance our safety by earning the respect of others and showing respect for them. In short, our foreign policy will rest on the traditional American values of restraint and empathy, not on military might.
— Theodore C. Sorensen
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. 
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
You can have a certain arrogance, and I think that's fine, but what you should never lose is the respect for the others.
— Steffi Graf
Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
— Barry Bonds
Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses.
— Maya Angelou
In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
— James Madison
Teaching the history of the British Empire links in with that of the world: for better and for worse, the Empire made us what we are, forming our national identity. A country that does not understand its own history is unlikely to respect that of others.
— Antony Beevor
I wanted to represent minorities in the respect of people who had been bullied in school or people who were gay or lesbian or trans or people who aren't blonde haired and blue-eyed. I have short hair, and I am covered in tattoos. I like showing people that it's within their rights to be different.
— Ruby Rose
Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Mutual respect! That's what it takes to be friends.
— Hugo Chavez
My mother early on taught us to respect all animals, and I mean all animals - not just cats and dogs but rats and snakes and spiders and fish and wildlife, so I really grew up believing they are just like us and just as deserving of consideration.
— Joanna Lumley
Don't ever know who you may meet, or just because a person may not be dressed up all fancy, don't mean they're not an important person. You just don't ever know who you're gonna meet in life. So that's why I look at everybody as equal. Can't just judge. I treat everybody with respect. Every man.
— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship we have to respect its traditions and its rules. 
— Jack Nicklaus
If you create something, you don't want someone else to go and profit from it; you have your right to make a living and everything. So I respect copyright. What I don't respect is copyright extremism. And I what I don't respect is a business model that encourages piracy.
— Kim Dotcom
Veterans Day is an acknowledgment that those willing to make the ultimate sacrifice for our country - and their families - deserve our admiration and respect today and every day.
— Elizabeth Esty
I have great respect for the men and women that have fought for this country. I have family, I have friends that have gone and fought for this country. And they fight for freedom, they fight for the people, they fight for liberty and justice, for everyone.
— Colin Kaepernick
Don't worry about what the people say; be yourself, say what you want to say with respect.
— Mariano Rivera
I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.
— Narendra Modi
I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.
— Steve Jobs
There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.
— Mother Teresa
I believe that fitness needs to come from within you. You need to respect your body. Only then will you have the zeal to maintain it. For me, keeping fit is a part of my lifestyle.
— Arjun Rampal
Dad often told me, 'My job is to help my boss do his job and make him look good.' That was my dad's objective. Everything about the way he conducted himself was to communicate support for his superiors and respect for his coworkers. The way he dressed was his starting point in that communication.
— Lyle Lovett
To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
— Bono
When you have that respect from your teammates, it makes it a lot more comfortable.
— LeBron James
I've always played sport, ever since I was little. I played volleyball and I believe sport teaches you a lot, such as teamwork, respect and discipline.
— Gisele Bundchen
I do believe in humanism, and I believe that we should treat each other with respect and care and look after each other. All human beings should have an equal chance to survive in society, and inequality is a big problem in society.
— Stellan Skarsgard
Our challenge for the future is that we realize we are very much a part of the earth's ecosystem, and we must learn to respect and live according to the basic biological laws of nature.
— Jim Fowler
My father used to have an expression. He'd say, 'Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It's about your dignity. It's about respect. It's about your place in your community.'
— Joe Biden
Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.
— Baltasar Gracian
Once you figure out what respect tastes like, it tastes better than attention. But you have to get there.
— Pink
I like guitar. It just turned out that it's the instrument I learned to play. I have a lot of respect for it, and I'm learning more and more every day. For me, the classic band setup - guitars, drums, bass - will stay fresh forever. I don't know. I'm still into it.
— Mac DeMarco
The valor and courage of our young women and men in the armed services are a shining example to all of the world, and we owe them and their families our deepest respect.
— Bill Frist
This is how you start to get respect: by offering something that you have.
— Morrie Schwartz
This is what we call smart power. Using every possible tool and partner to advance peace and security. Leaving no one on the sidelines. Showing respect even for one's enemies. Trying to understand, in so far as psychologically possible, empathize with their perspective and point of view. Helping to define the problems, determine the solutions.
— Hillary Clinton
In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect - if you're a moderate on abortion, if you're a moderate on gun control, or if you're a moderate in your religious faith - it doesn't evolve into a crusade where you're either right or wrong, good or bad, with us or against us.
— Jimmy Carter
You can't allow tradition to get in the way of innovation. There's a need to respect the past, but it's a mistake to revere your past.
— Bob Iger
Our work for human dignity is often lonely, and almost always an uphill climb. At times, our efforts are misunderstood, and we are mistaken for the enemy. There has been a clear erosion of respect for U.N. blue and our impartiality.
— Ban Ki-moon
I have always believed that I should have had no difficulty in causing my rights to be respected.
— Eli Whitney
I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.
— June Jordan
I believe that young people are looking for answers to the big questions just like everyone else, and that they respect intelligent comment to help guide them through tough times.
— Bill Kurtis
I have great respect for the semicolon it is a mighty handy little fellow. 
— Abraham Lincoln
The crown must constantly earn citizens' appreciation, respect and trust.
— Felipe VI of Spain
I have great respect for people's right to believe what they want to believe. And I don't think anybody should be prosecuted or judged based on what their beliefs are.
— Colin Kaepernick
The life of the community, both domestically and internationally, clearly demonstrates that respect for rights, and the guarantees that follow from them, are measures of the common good that serve to evaluate the relationship between justice and injustice, development and poverty, security and conflict.
— Pope Benedict XVI
My dad, being a businessman, constantly talked to me about carrying myself in a certain way and treating people with respect. And I think that's something that's carried over throughout my life. It's how I deal with certain situations.
— Colin Kaepernick
Psychology is as important as substance. If you treat people with respect, they will go out of their way to accommodate you. If you treat them in a patronizing way, they will go out of their way to make your life difficult.
— Mohamed ElBaradei
The way forward is always found through greater respect for the equal rights of all.
— Martin O'Malley
Hopefully, imparting what's important to me, respect for the food and that information about the purveyors, people will realize that for a restaurant to be good, so many pieces have to come together.
— Thomas Keller
Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.
— Tim Allen
We can win respect in the world only if we are strong internally and can banish poverty and unemployment from our country.
— Lal Bahadur Shastri
With my wife I don't get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to 'the best woman a man ever had.' The waiter joined me.
— Rodney Dangerfield
Grace, respect, reserve, and empathetic listening are qualities sorely missing from the public discourse now.
— Meryl Streep
I fear God and respect God and love God.
— Brett Ratner
I don't wait for people to give me respect. I always give them respect.
— Mariano Rivera
I get asked a lot about my legacy. For me, it's being a good teammate, having the respect of my teammates, having the respect of the coaches and players. That's important to me.
— Peyton Manning
Thus, it was to seek true civilization and true justice for all the peoples of the world, and to view this as the destruction of personal freedom and respect is to be assailed by the hatred and emotion of war, and to make hasty judgments.
— Hideki Tojo
I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity.
— Julius Erving
Respecting people is an important part of life, whether it's the person doing janitorial work or the person above you. It doesn't matter who you are: I'm going to respect you.
— Andy Reid
Gymnastics taught me everything - life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect.
— Shawn Johnson
A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.
— William Hazlitt
The only thing I command is respect.
— Kyrie Irving
If people who cherish freedom, who know the importance of mutual respect and are aware of the imperative necessity to establish a constructive and critical debate, if these people are not ready to speak out, to be more committed and visible, then we can expect sad, painful tomorrows. The choice is ours.
— Tariq Ramadan
Inspirational leaders need to have a winning mentality in order to inspire respect. It is hard to trust in the leadership of someone who is half-hearted about their purpose, or only sporadic in focus or enthusiasm.
— Sebastian Coe
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
— Anton Chekhov
I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.
— Maya Angelou
The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but the Pope has the duty, in Christ's name, to remind the rich to help the poor, to respect them, to promote them.
— Pope Francis
Since I've started fighting it has taught me a lot about self respect, self confidence and self control.
— Gina Carano
We should all consider each other as human beings, and we should respect each other.
— Malala Yousafzai
Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'm a good piano player, I can sing well, I write good songs. If you don't like it, fair enough. But give me a break.
— Elton John
The person who comes up to you and makes the most noise and is the most intrusive is invariably the person in the room who has no respect for you at all, and it's really all about them.
— Robbie Coltrane
I respect everybody, but at the same time, I carry myself with an aura that demands respect, too.
— Lil' Kim
It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time, remembering to love, to honor, to respect. It is a practice, a discipline, worthy of every moment.
— Jasmine Guy
I feel a distaste for hunting, first because of a kind of Buddhist respect for the unity and sacredness of all life, and also because the pursuit of a hare or chamois strikes me as a kind of 'escape of energy,' that is, the expenditure of our effort in an illusory end, one devoid of profit.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
These haters are too less in number when compared to the millions who support me. I look at all those beautiful people who always stand by me. I respect them, and they equally respect me.
— Divyanka Tripathi
At a deep psychological level, convincing young people that they will get the respect, admiration, love that they are looking for through consumerism is a manipulation of a deep human instinct to want to belong.
— Helena Norberg-Hodge
I have respect for beer.
— Russell Crowe
In cyberspace, people with different skin colors, nationalities, cultures and languages should be equally entitled to participation, free speech and development. We should abandon prejudices, respect differences, and be tolerant and open.
— Lu Wei
I respect the fact that people have worked hard all week and want to go to the movies on the weekend and be entertained.
— Michael Moore
I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.
— Edward Gibbon
Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.
— Gary Ryan Blair
I am not very proud of being an human being; in fact, I distinctly dislike the species in many ways. I can readily conceive of beings vastly superior in every respect.
— H. P. Lovecraft
Freedom is a timeless value. The United Nations Charter calls for encouraging respect for fundamental freedoms. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights mentions freedom more than twenty times. All countries have committed to protecting individual freedoms on paper - but in practice, too many break their pledge.
— Ban Ki-moon
Civility is not about dousing strongly held views. It's about making sure that people are willing to respect other perspectives.
— Jim Leach