Quotes About Respect

Children are becoming disobedient... why, because of the lack of rules boundaries and limitations.

I think people who lack humility are really annoying.

Respect only has meaning as respect for those with whom I do not agree.

Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.

Detachment is a gift to each of us, really. Whether we are detaching from others or they from us, it's a show of respect every time. To not allow others, or to not be allowed, to make personal choices limits our growth. Our time here is purposeful. If we steer others in a direction that's not right for them now, time is wasted, lessons are postponed, and opportunities are missed.

Come and take your seat, Lady Dorina.

You mean you let him talk to you like that and you aren't even getting any Man what a rip-off.

The getup, sort of mad scientist meets Rambo, would have made me smile, except that I believe in showing respect for someone carrying that much hardware.

You decent?" I pulled the towel up a little higher. "Yes, if my wrinkled toes don't offend." Marco's swarthy head popped around the doorjamb. "Naw, they're cute.

We were obviously going to have to have a talk about the difference between "maintaining security" and "being a dick.

What gives us the right to violate the bodies and minds of other feeling beings? -Henry Spira

Life it too short to deal with crazy people.

If every time you call him you simply get his voice mail, and every time he calls you he wants to come over and "chill" at your place -- admit it; you're just a jump-off.

When a family member's behavior threatens to knock the nice right out of us, we can pause. Recalculate. Punch in a different destination for the words now downloading from our brains onto our tongues. We can program them to first stop at gentleness, swing by to pick up respect, and finally — arrive with grace.

1. Don't speak too much. 2. Don't speak too soon. 3. Don't speak without first listening. And then the advice? Don't speak at all.

It appears to me that our sex is only discussed publicly in a derogatory manner. The respectable woman is doomed to anonymity.

And she knows how to come into a home and not step on the toes of a ghost.

Arriving late was a way of saying that your own time was more valuable than the time of the person who waited for you.

A literary expert friend once told me that the way to teach your child to love and respect reading is not to read to them, but rather to refuse to allow yourself to be interrupted while you're reading.

Distinguish yourself [...] in an age where girls often make themselves too available to boys, by making him work a little for your attention. He'll think he's won a prize when he gets it, and he'll work that much harder to keep it. Boys turn into men and men put a premium on what's hard to get.

Turn it off," Ryodan says without even looking at me. "You're distressing Dani. No one distresses Dani but me.

Stay the fuck out of my head!" Fuck. There's a word I understand. "Yes, please.

Friends don't build cages for each other.

People treat you as badly as you let them treat you. Key word there: let.