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Quotes About Respect

if you don't respect the other person, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you don't know how to compromise, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you can't talk openly about what goes on between you, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. And if you have different set of values in life, you're gonna have a lot of trouble.Your values must be alike. And the biggest of those values... the belief in the importance of your marriage.
~ Mitch Albom
Look. I know what I believe. It's in my soul. But I constantly tell our people: you should be convinced of the authenticity of what you have, but you must also be humble enough to say that we don't know everything. And since we don't know everything, we must accept that another person may believe something else.
~ Mitch Albom
A funeral is no place for secrets.
~ Mitch Albom
If the only thing wrong with mosques, Lent, chanting, ?Mecca, confession, or reincarnation is that they're not yours- well maybe the problem is YOU
~ Mitch Albom
If you don't respect the other person, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you don't know how to compromise, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you can't talk openly about what goes on between you, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. And if you don't have a common set of values in life, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. Your values must be alike.
~ Mitch Albom
philosophy was that death should not be embarrassing; he was not about to powder its nose.
~ Mitch Albom
Do not stop your lives, he told them. Otherwise, this disease will have ruined three of us instead of one. In this way, even as he was dying, he showed respect for his children's worlds.
~ Mitch Albom
respected man once said, that the
~ Mitch Albom
When a Catholic priest from across the street insulted one of our members, you demanded he apologize. When he did, you accepted, as his penance, a gesture. You waited until the Catholic schoolkids were in recess, playing in the schoolyard, then you and the priest strolled around the perimeter, arm in arm, showing that different faiths can indeed walk side by side, in harmony.
~ Mitch Albom
But what the Reb had said resonated, that you can embrace your own faith's authenticity and still accept that others believe in something else.
~ Mitch Albom
Through it all, despite it all, Eddie privately adored his old man, because sons will adore their fathers even through the worst behavior, It is how they learn devotion. Before he can devote himself to God or a woman, a boy will devote himself to his father, even foolishly, even beyond explanation.
~ Mitch Albom
Please love one another, talk to one another, don't let trivialities dissolve friendships…
~ Mitch Albom
Offering others what you have to give. I don't mean money. I mean your time. Your concern. Your storytelling. This is how you start to get respect, by offering something that you have. Devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.
~ Mitch Albom
You know, I never did call him Watson – he was John, simply John.
~ Mitch Cullin
I'm not defending their views . I'm defending their right to have their views. There's a difference.
~ Mohja Kahf
Young men pray for different things, of course, but some young men pray to honor the goodness of the men who raised them
~ Mohsin Hamid
Young men pray for different things, of course, but some young men pray to honour the goodness of the men who raised them, and Saeed was very much a young man of this mould.
~ Mohsin Hamid
a gun was a marker on the journey of death, and was to be respected as such, like a coffin or a grave or a meal in winter, not to be foolish with...
~ Mohsin Hamid
Polite? I said, less than radiant with joy. She smiled. I don't mean it that way, she said. Not being polite. Respectful polite. You give people their space. I really like that. It's unusual
~ Mohsin Hamid
Armed college students were telling women to cover their heads.
~ Mohsin Hamid
What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.
~ Molly Ivins
But if you do not wish to speak, I do not wish to hear.
~ Monica Ali
Very suitable," said Yasmin, which in the Ghorami household was high praise indeed.
~ Monica Ali
You need nature more than she needs you. It is not an equal relationship. Serve her well and she will look after you. Abuse her and everyone loses.
~ Montagu Don