Quotes About Respect

Never argue Greek legends with a Greek...

intimidated by her, too, but they recognized her value. Before long

They want this resource for themselves. They're blaming us for the low salmon runs. But we're not the ones overfishing. We've always caught what we needed. Some years are better than others, but we respect the cycle. We did not create this mess. You see over there? They are allowed to catch more than us because the government said they could. And further out, in the ocean, they can catch even more.

Unlike the vast majority of Americans, he did not assume that a woman seeking an abortion late in pregnancy was lazy or stupid or too busy having sex to have attended to matters early on. He did not assume that her body ceased to be her own because she was pregnant.

I loved Spencer Tracy. He and his interests and his demands came first.

Marriage gives you a new respect for a person.

The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.

My good friends are Mormon, some of the best people I know.

Doctor Dowers," teased Connie. "Listen," said Liz, "after all the crap I had to take in grad school, you bet everyone's calling me Doctor. I'll get my cabdriver to do it if I can. I'll make my mother do it.

That's a Christian concept. No self-respecting witch would worship a Christian god of evil.

You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.

When I hosted the dinner I served fast food hamburgers. It had nothing to do with black, white, purple, yellow, green race. it had nothing to do with Tiger or his family or his golf game.

Love everybody like you love yourself, and you've got to be full up with you to love yourself properly first.

A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognize the truth, either in himself or anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and others. When he had no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and, in order to divert himself, having no love in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest forms of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal. And it all comes from lying - to others and to yourself.

If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.

Authority ... cannot be a darksome power that compels us to subject ourselves without reason.

Among the Huguenots he learned to be gentle and courteous; to bear himself among his elders respectfully, but without fear or shyness; to consider that, while all things were of minor consequence in comparison to the right to worship God in freedom and purity, yet that a man should be fearless of death, ready to defend his rights, but with moderation and without pushing them to the injury of others; that he should be grave and decorous of speech, and yet of a gay and cheerful spirit.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.

Even his own wife, Cindy, balked when learning of his actions. "I've heard how he is at work, and I wouldn't want to be around that," she said. "If he treated me that way, or the kids, we wouldn't be married.

It is just as easy to be polite as to be rude, and men are served better for love than for fear.

Men make their own happiness, and a man may be respected even though only a slave.