Quotes About Respect

Being submissive does not mean that we don't give honest feedback.

Authority does not increase with volume. We

Never have sex with a woman who has more problems than you do.

Daughters of the American Revolution don't have group sex because they don't want to have to write all those thank-you notes.

Buck thanked the sheik and his trusted

Do you know why sharks don't eat lawyers? Professional courtesy.

if he were honest with himself, he'd understand that his hate was, in fact, a form of respect. You don't bother to hate what you think is contemptible.

henchmen came to kiss his ring, and where his

If a man looks upon any other man and estimates that man as less than himself, then he is stealing from the other. He is stealing the other's birthright - that of equality.

Belief in yourself is more important than endless worries of what others think of you. Value yourself and others will value you. Validation is best that comes from within.

You must be able to write. You must have a sense of form, of pattern, of design. You must have a respect for and a mastery over words.

I wrote this book because I had formed a strong impression that the people currently living were paying insufficient attention to the dead.

Only general officers were entitled to know our true rank. To all others our standard reply to the inevitable question, "What is your rank?" was simply a firm, "My rank is confidential, but at this moment I am not outranked."39

And if they don't like it if you use those words and they stop moving put their hand on your mouth say Don't say thatdon't use that wordI don't like it if they say they don't want to try being handcuffed to the towel rack in the bathroom they're never any good in bed. They may be nice. They may be witty charming etc. etc. They may be doing something for women's liberation (over what? over whom?). But they're never any good in bed.

When everyone feels free to tell you the truth, respect for you dwindles… A wise prince should take another course: choose wise men for your advisors, and allow only them the liberty of speaking the truth to the prince, and only on matters about which you ask, and nothing else. But you should question them about everything, listen patiently to their opinions, then form your own conclusions later.

It's better to be feared than loved if you cannot be both.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised.

It is better to be feared than to be loved, if you can not be both

There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.

Because fear and ove can hardly co exist together,if we must chose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.

Wherefore, as has already been said, a Prince who is ignorant of military affairs, besides other disadvantages, can neither be respected by his soldiers, nor can he trust them.

Differences between the conduct of the multitude and the conduct of the princes do not derive from differences in their nature, that being the same in both (though if there be some superiority either way, it will be found on the side of the people); rather, they derive from differences in their respect for the laws under which they live.

IT IS customary for such as seek a Prince's favour, to present themselves before him with those things of theirs which they themselves most value, or in which they perceive him chiefly to delight.