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Quotes About Respect

Like children, dogs want discipline and are most secure when they have rules to live by. The happiest dogs are those with gentle masters who quietly but firmly demand respect.
~ Dean Koontz
When someone shows you a picture of their kids what they don't want to hear is Oh, yeah, I got pictures of your kid too.
~ Demetri Martin
One of the things we might want to learn when considering the failings of others is not to gloat because someone else has tripped up.
~ Desmond Tutu
All people would really want peace and all would want to be sure that they would not be taken advantage of.
~ Desmond Tutu
When you are in a relationship, you want the other person to appreciate the things you like. It sounds superficial, but it's nice.
~ Diane Kruger
I've stuck by being modest, honest and humble, because I think you'll get more appreciated that way and we all want to be appreciated in this world.
~ Dwyane Wade
I'm not too bothered about what category my music goes in and there's no point in limiting in who you can reach, but I want it to be respected.
~ Emeli Sande
People want to be thought of as something other than a source of money. They want to be thought of as creative, thinking people.
~ Ethan Zuckerman
To impress me, a guy has to be completely unaffected by my presence. If he wants to talk to me, talk to me; if he doesn't, don't.
~ Evangeline Lilly
I don't need my sexuality celebrated, and I certainly don't need it to be criticized. I didn't necessarily want it to be observed, but here we are.
~ Ezra Miller
Care, but don't be pushy! Don't preach about enlightenment to people who don't really want to hear about it.
~ Frederick Lenz
Inspire people very selectively with sincerity and with respect. You want to increase your energy? Then want, inside your heart, to inspire others. It will lift you tremendously.
~ Frederick Lenz
An unfortunate side effect of education among the masses is lack of respect.
~ Steven Erikson
Before Lord Anomander Rake the crowd in the street shrank back, all thoughts of festivity swept away.
~ Steven Erikson
Names are not for the asking, mortal. Names are earned.
~ Steven Erikson
Mages by nature never commanded loyalty. Fear, yes, and the respect born of fear, but the one thing a mage found difficult to understand or cope with was loyalty. And yet there had been one mage, long ago, who had commanded loyalty – and that was the Emperor.
~ Steven Erikson
Las civilizaciones se aseguraban de que sus héroes estuviesen muertos antes de honrarlos. La virtud era cosa de los muertos, no de los vivos.
~ Steven Erikson
Honourable Murillo is dead
~ Steven Erikson
Anyone who has mastered a weapon – truly mastered it – is a humble man or woman.
~ Steven Erikson
Us soldiers only got one kind of coin worth anything, and it's called respect. And we hoard it, we hide it away, and there ain't nobody who'd call us generous. Easy spenders we're not. But there's something feels even worse than having to give up a coin – it's when somebody steps up and tosses one back at us.
~ Steven Erikson
The heart of wisdom is tolerance.
~ Steven Erikson
Andy Grove, the former CEO of Intel, was passionate about seeking to improve meetings. He once wrote, "Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment worth $2,000, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers." A poorly conducted and unnecessary meeting is indeed a form of time theft, a theft that can be prevented.
~ Steven G. Rogelberg
Yet this tough, pragmatic man with his finely tuned sense of justice and honor also had a huge, vulnerable heart and respect for the creative spirit that verged on the awestruck.
~ Steven Gaines
Mom told me that. When someone is acting inappropriately, don't normalize it. Make it clear to everyone that you are not okay with the behavior.
~ Steven Gould