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Quotes About Respect

If you read someone else's diary, you get what you deserve.
~ David Sedaris
Whoever needs milk, bows to the animal.
~ Yiddish saying
Your stomach shouldn't be a waist basket.
~ Author Unknown
Don't argue with an 18-wheeler.
~ Author Unknown
...the deepest principle of Human Nature is the craving to be appreciated...
~ William James
...that freshness of feeling, that delicate honor which shrinks from wounding even a sentiment...
~ George Eliot, Adam Bede
'T is a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't fling your butt beside the trail and we won't fling your butt in jail.
~ Author Unknown
Gossip is saying behind their back what you would not say to their face. Flattery is saying to their face what you would not say behind their back.
~ Author Unknown
Don't let your hatred gossip.
~ Terri Guillemets
I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth; but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of every body.
~ Benjamin Franklin, 1726
Funeral grief loathes words.
~ Thomas Dekker
If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also.
~ Russian proverb
I always feel that I have two duties to perform with a parting guest: one, to see that he doesn't forget anything that is his; the other, to see that he doesn't take anything that is mine.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
End discrimination. Hate everybody.
~ Elle Eden
It is better to have your nose in a book than in someone else's business.
~ Adam Stanley, unverified
The glow of good health can be yours for the price of hard work, wise choices, and respect for your body.
~ Terri Guillemets
We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.
~ Will Rogers
Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.
~ Robert G. Ingersoll, 1888
PLEASE DO NOT ENTER WITHOUT KNOCKING. PLEASE DO NOT KNOCK.
~ Jack London
It was all well enough in the Southland, under the law of love and fellowship, to respect private property and personal feelings; but in the Northland, under the law of club and fang, whoso took such things into account was a fool, and in so far as he observed them he would fail to prosper.
~ Jack London
Well, Buck, my boy," he went on in a genial voice, "we've had our little ruction, and the best thing we can do is to let it go at that. You've learned your place, and I know mine. Be a good dog and all 'll go well and the goose hang high. Be a bad dog, and I'll whale the stuffin' outa you. Understand?
~ Jack London
I've seen workaholics who've destroyed people. They become obsessed. They send out terrible messages. They make people feel guilty if they don't show up on Saturday. What a stupid message. People should be giving that time to their families.
~ Jack Stack
When you flaunt what you've got, when you intimidate, when you treat people badly, you lose power.
~ Jack Stack