Quotes About Respect

Really listening and suspending one's own judgment is necessary in order to understand other people on their own terms. As we have noted, this is a process that requires trust and builds trust.

I am convinced that any feeling of exaltation because we have people under us should be conquered, for I am sure that if we enjoy being over people, there will be something in our manner which will make them dislike being under us.

Theories and goals of education don't matter a whit if you do not consider your students to be human beings.

Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.

Connected knowers do not measure other people's words by some impersonal standard. Their purpose is not to judge but to understand.

We cannot safely assume that other people's minds work on the same principles as our own. All too often, others with whom we come in contact do not reason as we reason, or do not value the things we value, or are not interested in what interests us.

Nobody really knows Indians who cheat them and treat them badly.

What women want is what men want. They want respect.

Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance.

Where there is no capacity to affirm another as a person in his own right, there is no love. There is only masked fear.

All these were honoured in their generations and were the glory of their times.

It is said that no man is a hero to his valet. That is because a hero can be recognized only by a hero.

And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them," A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house."

It is better to deserve honours and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

Honour follows those who flee it.

Fame is something which must be won; honour is something which must not be lost.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.

Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on? How then? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery, then? No. What is honour? A word.

When the Quaker Penn kept his hat on in the royal presence, Charles (King Charles II) politely removed his, explaining that it was the custom in that place for only one person at a time to remain covered.

I believe the first test of a truly great man is his humility.

As the husband is, the wife is.

Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.

Remember this: If you work for a man, in Heaven's name, work for him. If he pays you wages which supply you bread and butter, work for him; speak well of him; stand by the institution he represents. If put to a pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. If you must vilify, condemn and eternally disparage - resign your position, and when you are on the outside, damn to your heart's content, but as long as you are part of the institution do not condemn it.

Hypocrisy is the homage which vice renders to virtue.