Quotes About Respect

I believe in you and me. I'm like Albert Schweitzer and Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein in that I have a respect for life -- in any form. I believe in nature, in the birds, the sea, the sky, in everything I can see or that there is real evidence for. If these things are what you mean by God, then I believe in God. But I don't believe in a personal God to whom I look for comfort or for a natural on the next roll of the dice.

When elephants choose to dance, it is the wise man who gets out of the way.

Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.

When speaking, be sincere, be brief, and be seated.

In the field of world policy I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor.

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

If you treat people right they will treat you right ... ninety percent of the time.

It is fun to be in the same decade with you. -Roosevelt to Churchill

Be sincere, Be brief, Be seated.

The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.

Joe Hardy to Frank Hardy: "Age before beauty

You mind your tongue!" "Oh, I do," I said. "I sharpen it every evening on your name.

Without agreement on rank and a certain respect for authority there can be no great sensitivity to social rules, as anyone who has tried to teach simple house rules to a cat will agree.

T]he term 'nonhuman' grates on me, since it lumps millions of species together by an absence, as if they were missing something. Poor things, they are nonhuman! When students embrace this jargon in their writing, I cannot resist sarcastic corrections in the margin saying that for completeness's sake, they should add that the animals they are talking about are also nonpenguin, nonhyena, and a whole lot more.

Superiority? Inferiority? Why not simply try to touch the other, feel the other, discover each other?

Do not cast your pearls before swine.

Ich halte es mit der Gelehrsamkeit wie die Fürsten mit der Verräterei: Ich ehre die Gelehrsamkeit und verachte die Gelehrten, die eben nichts als Gelehrte sind.

Among the four things a noble person need not be ashamed of is serving a scholar in order to learn from him. Ata- b. Musab's remoteness from and indifference to the Barmecides made him popular with them, although others possessed more adab than he did.

The proper respect to be shown to scholars is described by Alî in detail. He is credited with the constantly repeated statement that "Knowledge is better than property. For knowledge protects you, while you must protect property. Property is diminished by spending, while knowledge thrives on spending." Alî's celebrated remark: "A man's value consists in what he knows or does well.

Mamá, puedes pedirme lo que sea, pero no que me coma a mi mejor amigo.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Won't say I hate you–but my admiration for you is under control.

My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.

A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on.