94 Disrespectful Individuals Quotes to Help You Cope with Negativity and Rudeness
When someone are impolite or rude then that might cause a quick response.
Anger. Feeling pained.
Or maybe simply disappointment.
Therefore in today’s article I’d like to present the 94 of the greatest and most beneficial rude people quotes.
To enable you to cope with the rudeness and disrespect of others in a better and healthier manner so it doesn’t drag your day and week down into negativity.
And if you want more useful inspiration then check out this article with quotations about feeling undervalued and this one loaded with Brené Brown quotes.
Relatable Disrespectful People Quotes
“I never make the mistake of disputing with individuals for whose viewpoints I have no respect.”
— Edward Gibbon
“Discomfort is understandable. It’s the nastiness that isn’t.”
– N.K. Jemisin
“Now I feel like whatever I do, no one can damage me. I cannot be assaulted, I cannot be humiliated, I cannot be dismissed, I cannot be disrespected.”
— Fiona Apple
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“Life is too short to spend your time on individuals who don’t respect, appreciate, and cherish you.”
— Roy T. Bennett
“Only once in my life was I on the verge of incivility. I do not like to be unkind.”
— David Rockefeller
“What is happening to our young people? They disregard their elders, they defy their parents. They disregard the law. They riot in the streets heated with crazy thoughts. Their morals are deteriorating. What is to become of them? ”
– Socrates
“People mistreat you for two reasons; to win your respect towards them and to bargain your trust towards them.”
– J. Ruby
“Being intelligent is no big achievement if you respect nothing.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Men are respected just as they respect.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A little rudeness and contempt may raise a trivial conversation to a battle of wills and provide drama to an otherwise mundane day.”
— Bill Watterson
“I think if you are good to others, children will follow. Likewise, if you are unpleasant to adults, children will follow.”
— Wendi Deng Murdoch
“Never make excuses for someone who disrespects you — who they are or what they do isn’t a license to treat you like trash.”
— Trent Shelton
“There cannot be greater disrespect than to interrupt somebody in the tide of his discourse.”
— John Locke
“When individuals don’t appreciate one another rarely is there honesty.”
— Shannon L. Alder
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“People who love themselves, don’t injure other people. The more we detest ourselves, the more we want others to suffer.”
— Dan Pearce
“Pay no heed to harmful remarks. What others say is frequently a reflection of themselves, not you.”
- Cristian Baloga
“Real love travels freely in both ways. Don’t spend your attention on anything else.”
― Cheryl Strayed
“Disrespect is weary. Shade is old. Sipping ‘tea' isn't cute. But loving, supporting, giving, being thankful, and propagating light, is.”
— Grace Gealey
Useful Disrespectful People Quotes
“Love is a justification for so many things… But not to accept disrespect and abuse. Let love be the power that cures you from a poor relationship; not what keeps you in it.”’
— Steve Maraboli
“Don't allow others insult you. My mum advises don't open the door to the devil. Surround yourself with positive people.”
— Cuba Gooding, Jr.
“You don’t have to tolerate impolite conduct, you know. You may face it with a gentle but firm reply or you can simply ignore it and go away before this becomes a larger and needless conflict.”
— Rip Miller
“If you insult everyone that you run across, how in the world do you think anybody’s meant to respect you?
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— Aretha Franklin
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“Keep away from folks who attempt to diminish your objectives. Little people usually do that, but the genuinely great make you believe that you too may become great.”
- Mark Twain
“Arrogance, contempt and demand have greater price. Kindness, respect and tact yield higher prize.”
- Angelica Hopes
“If they mistreat you to your face picture what they’re doing behind your back.”
— Sonya Parker
“If you accept disrespectful conduct it will become worse over time.”
- Samara O'Shea
“No matter what the cause, if you start to yell and shout, you seem a fool, and you feel a fool, and you deserve the scorn of everyone.”
— Michael Caine
“Treat people like people. Beware of pity and patronization because in them, you can’t recognize when you’re brazenly looking down on someone.”
– Criss Jami
“If you can’t ignore an insult, top it; if you can’t top it, laugh it off; and if you can’t laugh it off, it’s definitely deserved.”
— Russel Lynes
“You don't have to demean and insult people only to keep your own stance. If you do, it demonstrates how weak your own stance is.”
- Red Haircrow
“If you do not respect your own desires, no one else will. You will just attract individuals who insult you as much as you do.”
— Vironika Tugaleva
“Don’t take things personally. But don’t condone disrespect.”
— Izey Victoria Odiase
“Never be intimidated into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's concept of your life, but define yourself.”
— Harvey Fierstein
“Our disregard for thinking: someone sitting in a chair, staring out of a window blankly, constantly labeled as ‘doing nothing’.”
— Alain de Botton
“Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of enslavement, humiliation, and disregard for human dignity, one’s own, and that of other people.”
– Leon Trotsky
“The method to avoid charge of impudence is not to be embarrassed of what we do, but never to do what we aught to be ashamed of.”
– Tully
“We strongly condemn any disrespect to human beings regardless of whether they are those of opponents or friends.”
— Karim Rahimi
“Disrespect lingers to the uneducated; like damp leaves, inhaled, on chilled skin.”
— Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann
“Do not be frightened by unpleasant individuals since rudeness is a sign of insecurity.”
- Gift Gugu Mona
“There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve disdain can offer, and those alone who deserve no scorn can bear.”
— Henry Fielding
“If you can’t treat me like I’m someone significant, then please don’t mistreat me.”
— Wazim Shaw
“We insult ourselves and our free will anytime we declare that we need to do something.”
— Jonathan Lockwood Huie
“The wrong person will make you feel unwanted, undervalued, hated and they will make you feel like an option. The proper person will have you feeling welcomed, respected, cherished and they will have you feeling like a priority.”
— John Adams
Insightful Disrespectful Individuals Quotes
“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The guy who lies to himself and listens to his own falsehood gets to a point where he cannot identify the truth inside him, or around him, and thus loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no esteem he stops to love.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
“The insolence of time is like a punch in the face from an invisible enemy.”
— Margaret Deland
“I believe schools typically perform an effective and very detrimental job of educating youngsters to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, docile and contemptuous to their own developmental capacities.”
— Seymour Papert
“Contempt for pleasure is frequently disdain for other people’s happiness, and is an ingenious mask for hate of the human race.”
— Bertrand Russell
“Disrespect for life is a clear reflection of breaching the rules of the kingdom of love.”
- Sunday Adelaja
“When you accept rude individuals you degrade yourself.”
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
“If you have the inclination to suppress your anger, you have lost touch with a crucial part of yourself. Being furious is a method to win back that part of yourself by asserting your rights, expressing your unhappiness with a situation, and letting people know how you prefer to be treated. It might encourage you to make required adjustments in a relationship or other aspects of your life. Ultimately it may let people know that you expect to be respected and treated fairly.”
— Beverly Engel
“Sometimes what you see of a person is simply what they want you to see. But if you disregard that aspect, you will see all of you.”
— Robert Black
“Ideological disagreements are no justification for rudeness.”
— Judith Martin
“As long as you search for someone else to validate who you are by seeking their approval, you are setting yourself up for tragedy. You have to be entire and complete in yourself. No one can offer you that. You have to know who you are - what others say is irrelevant.”
— Nic Sheff
“If we as a nation knew the magnificence from whence we originated we would be less prone to degrade ourselves.”
— Marcus Garvey
“Shame, blame, contempt, betrayal, and the withholding of affection harm the roots from which love thrives. Love can only survive these hurts if they are recognized, healed and rare.”
— Brené Brown
“If we have no regard for our audience, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do?
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— Christiane Amanpour
“Rudeness luxuriates in the lack of self-respect.”
— Eric Hoffer
“Throughout life people will make you upset, insult you and treat you terrible. Let God deal with the things they do, since hatred in your heart will destroy you too.”
— Will Smith
“A lack of gratitude and respect may be a tragic end to many good relationships.”
— Bernajoy Vaal
“A guy who walks into a restaurant and shamelessly disrespects the waiters exhibits a tremendous unhappiness with his own self. Deep down he understands that restaurant service is the closest thing he will ever experience to being treated like a king.”
? Criss Jami
“I would never insult any man, woman, chick or kid out there. We're all the same. What goes around comes around, and karma kicks us all in the butt at the end of the day.”
— Angie Stone
“True irreverence is disdain for another man’s God.”
- Mark Twain
“If you can’t ignore an insult, top it; if you can’t top it, laugh it off; and if you can’t laugh it off, it’s definitely deserved.”
— Russel Lynes
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“Intelligence arouses fear and respect, the absence of it puts one on the narrow minded route of contempt, ignorance and inferiority complex.”
? Michael Bassey Johnson
“Those who make enmity a daily lifestyle are frequently left in the lurch during tough times.”
— Michael Bassey Johnson
“Good manners are admired as much as poor manners are abhorred.”
– Bryant McGill
Short Disrespectful Individuals Quotes
“I don’t believe a challenging question is disrespectful.”
— Helen Thomas
“Those who insult you with their lips don’t deserve your ear.”
— Curtis Tyrone Jones
“In any nation when you throw anything in somebody’s face, it’s disrespectful.”
– Pitbull
“You don’t have permission to disrespect yourself.”
— Martin De Maat
“If everyone is receiving money, no one is being mistreated, and no one is getting wounded, no one should be arguing.”
— Damon Dash
“When I look at a person, I see a person – not a position, not a class, not a title.”
– Criss Jami
“I don’t do stuff to offend the fans.”
— Romeo Santos
“Disrespect is the weapon of the weak.”
— Alice Miller
“A youngster who is permitted to be rude to his parents will not have sincere respect for anyone.”
— Billy Graham
“Refuse to accept another’s estimate of yourself.”
— Alison Stormwolf
“A woman brought you into this world, therefore you have no right to criticize one.”
- Tupac Shakur
“There is no respect for others without humility in one’s self.”
- Henri Frederic Amielect.
“Nothing in the history of humans has been insulted as much as nature.”
– M.F. Moonzajer
“When we mistreat a person, we dishonor God.”’
– Shri Radhe Maa
“There may be disagreement without disrespect.”
— Dean Jackson
“If they don't appreciate your presence, then you might try offering them your absence.”
- Tinku Razoria
“Never insult someone. Pride comes before a tremendous fall.”
- Don Santo
“The insolence of time is like a punch in the face from an invisible enemy.”
— Margaret Deland
“I believe in a passionate disregard for most kinds of authority.”
— Rita Mae Brown
“If you have been disrespectful then as soon as you recognize it, apologize. Otherwise it might damage a relationship.”
— Rip Miller
“Disagreement is one thing; contempt is quite another.”
— Richard V. Reeves
“Disrespect inhibits love from growing.”
– Anoir Ou-Chad
“There is no mobility with terrible manners.”
- Ali Ibn Abi Talib
“If anybody disrespects me they will pay for it. I promise.”
— Anderson Silva
“Respect portrays acceptance whereas disrespect is rejection.”
— Fawad Afzal Khan
“If you don't respect me, just ignoring you is a relief.”
- Toba Beta
“No one is more irritating than someone who lacks fundamental courtesy.”
– Bryant McGill
“Disrespect merits the contempt of the maker and the creation.”
— Abdul-Qadir Gilani
“What a great thing to be as unpleasant as that with such convictions.”
— Eilís Dillon
“I believe bluntly ignoring someone is one of the few greatest kinds of disrespect.”
– Unknown
“I have a deep contempt for authority and for regulations. Includes gravity. Gravity sucks.”
— Sebastian Thrun
“Contempt is the only way to prevail against calumny.”
- Francoise d’Aubigne
“Disrespect cannot be ordered, it must be earned.”
— Matthew Taberner
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