Quotes About Respect

I don't want somebody sucking up to me because they think I am going to help their career. I want them sucking up to me because they genuinely love me.

I don't have anything against Jimmy Fallon, I love him, he's a kick...

Our best loved friend is always in some way our peer.

I dedicate the love, enthusiasm, welcome and respect given to me to the feet of 125 crore children of Mother India.

For me, love is an enhanced state of kindness, compassion, service, respect, and humility, an emotion I feel we are all here to give and to receive.

We need to move beyond the idea of 'environment' and fall back in love with Mother Earth.

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.

Everyone has the right to be who they are

She would not have hurt the old man's feelings for anything in the world.

Don't eat so noisily. My grandmother used to say, 'A smack at the table is worth a smack on the bottom.

I did not mind cleaning up my room, dusting, making the salad, but I resented her manner of asking me.

Safely past the livery stable, we crossed back over Maple Street. We usually met a relative or two. Sometimes it was Uncle Fred, my father's oldest brother, who had a fascinating bald head. After we passed him, Mother said, "You mustn't stare at Uncle Fred's bald head. You might hurt his feelings." How could I hurt his feelings when I so admired his bald head? I once tried to cut off my own hair so I could be bald, too.

You shouldn't leave your crayon on other people's beds where it can get sat on.

Mrs. Quimby looked amused, which Ramona found pleasant, not like bring laughed at.

control and to keep your hands to yourself. There are all kinds of teachers in the world just as there are all kinds of other people, and you must learn to get along with them. Maybe Mrs. Griggs doesn't understand how you feel, but you aren't always easy to understand. Did you ever think of that?

Grown-ups often forgot that no child likes to be ordered to be nice to another child.

It is the cultivation of the capacity to listen that is central to the practice of dialogue.

We must all be able to embrace who we are in terms of our racial and cultural heritage, not in terms of assumed superiority or inferiority but as an integral part of our daily experience in which we can take pride.

If someone is inconsiderate or rude to you, risk telling them how it made you feel or that you didn't appreciate being treated that way. If you tend to talk yourself out of anger by telling yourself that you don't want to make waves, try telling yourself instead that it is okay to make waves sometimes and risk letting people know how you really feel.

The messages you received from your family or your childhood experiences may have caused you to believe that assertiveness is unacceptable or even dangerous. Practice saying the following: I have the right to be treated with respect by others. I have the right to express my feelings and opinions. I have the right to say no without feeling guilty. I have the right to ask for what I want. I have the right to make my own mistakes. I have the right to pursue happiness.

If you have the tendency to repress your anger, you have lost touch with an important part of yourself. Getting angry is a way to gain back that part of yourself by asserting your rights, expressing your displeasure with a situation, and letting others know how you wish to be treated. It can motivate you to make needed changes in a relationship or other areas of your life. Finally it can let others know that you expect to be respected and treated fairly.

Male ignorance of female anatomy is quite arresting, it appears, particularly when you consider how keen they are to get to know it in other respects.

was interested to see that two bouquets had been laid on the lid, so someone must miss her. A couple of other mourners, lacking flowers, had left empty crisp packets, bless them, while someone else had placed an empty can of Carlsberg lager on the grave of a man named Duckett

I may not agree with what you say, but I shall defend to the death your right to be a complete asshole.