Christiane Amanpour Quotes

Some people in the press don't respect people in life. I can put my head on my pillow and sleep great because I respect everyone.

I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

You demand respect and you'll get it. First of all, you give respect.

Don't violate your own code of values and ethics, but don't waste energy trying to make other people violate theirs.

I have principles in my professional and personal life as to how things are done.

I'm only at the beginning of my career, but I feel successful in that I haven't sold out in any way, shape or form. I feel good about the choices I've made, and I don't feel like I've let go of any of my values.

No strength within, no respect without.

I'm just a human being who would not accept being wronged.

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

Throughout my career, I have lived by the principles of personal honor and professional integrity.

When a person thinks that you are not competent enough to do his film or work with him, one should not ask for work from that person.

I am not that kind of a person who can written off.

I like to fight where people respect me.

The only person I worry about pleasing is God, my husband, my family, and myself.

I just wish that I am always true to my work and myself and value the respect that my parents have earned.

I haven't been given a lot of respect in the division. But you know what? I'm OK with earning it.

I encourage courtesy. To accept nothing less than courtesy, and to give nothing less than courtesy. If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

I should think myself a very bad woman, if I had done what I do for a farthing less.

Her virtue and the conscience of her worth, That would be woo'd, and not unsought be won.

One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

It is well for a man to respect his own vocation whatever it is and to think himself bound to uphold it and to claim for it the respect it deserves

Only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.

... the self respect of individuals ought to make them demand of their leaders conformity with an agreed-upon code of ethics and moral conduct.