Quotes About Respect

Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.

Love your neighbor as yourself, but don't take down the fence.

Do not pluck the beard of a dead lion.

It is not good to wake a sleeping lion.

Those expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in the family.

Though I've belted you and flayed you, By the livin' Gawd that made you, You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred in the company.

Real maturity is the ability to imagine the humanity of every person as fully as you believe in your own humanity.

A woman who is found without her veil in some regions of Islam will, it is reported, raise her skirt to cover her face.

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

She's somebody's mother, boys, you know, For all she's aged and poor and slow.

Her children arise up and call her blessed.

MOTHER TO TEENAGER ON SUNDAY MORNING: I believe I heard the clock strike one when you came in last night. teen: Well, I know how much you need your sleep, so it was going to strike ten but I stopped it at one chime.

Competition is easier to accept if you realize it is not an act of oppression or abrasion. ... I've worked with my best friends in direct competition.

Obedience alone gives the right to command.

The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.

The great rule of moral conduct is, next to God, to respect Time.

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.

That which is horrifying to you don't do to anybody else.

I do not stand on protocol. If you just call me Excellency, it will be okay.

Some people might say that I think too highly of you just because I worship the water you walk on.

I don't want to be patronizing . . . that means "talking down."

I'm moving down here . . . because some of you in the back might not be able to hear my talk . . . and that wouldn't be fair to those who can hear it.

One should respect public opinion in so far as it is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.