Quotes About Respect

Friendship doesn't have anything to do with shoring up weakness. It has to do with respect and consideration for those you care about. It has to do with wanting to give something back to those you admire.

A cat never discusses his business with humans, not even Princesses. A cat never explains and never apologizes. A cat never alibis. You must accept a cat as it is and for what it is and not expect more than the pleasure of its company.

What once was and was good ought not to be cast aside.

You know, Annie," he said then, his deep voice thoughtful, "fighting didn't change his opinion. The opinions of others, whether you agree with them or not, are something you have to learn to tolerate.

An opinion is not to be respected simply because somebody holds it. More or less any obnoxious viewpoint one can think up is probably held by somebody somewhere. There are right-wing Afrikaners who believe that Nelson Mandela was evil.

I wish people had half the honor of dragons.

Laugh all you want. I know my own worth and don't need to prove it to someone who doesn't know theirs.

You can't love anyone or anything until you love your own existence first. Love can only grow out of a respect for your own life.

Enemies,' the wizard said, 'are the price of honour.

When you insist someone submit to your will, it is accomplished most easily if you give them a small victory so they can retain their dignity while they do as you insist. ~ Kahlan Mother Confessor

Kahlan,' he said, trying to make his voice sound reassuring, 'being a friend means you don't have to tell me anything you don't want to, and I'll still be your friend.

He slipped the baldric over his head, laying the leather across his shoulder and the scabbard at his hip. Knowing the weapon a little more intimately, now, he had a new respect for it.

We believe in treating others as we would want to be treated.

loyalty is earned, my dear, not commanded.

People, if they don't take the lives of others, have the right to live their life.

But as much as he wanted to know the answers, it was against his nature to force someone to tell something she didn't want to. His father had raised him to respect another person's right to keep his own secrets.

Don't worship a man. Worship his cause, but not him.

Most women are amazing. They just need to be with someone who makes it easy for them to express it. I think it's called respect.

I like gay men who don't hate women, and I don't mind being around rich white people, because there's plenty of them in the Bay Area, and I know how to ignore Republicans.

How do you tell a man—in a nice way—that he makes you sick?

Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.

And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things.

Books must be treated with respect, we feel that in our bones, because words have power. Bring enough words together they can bend space and time.

I DON'T HOLD WITH CRUELTY TO CATS.