Quotes About Respect

My Apology dose not mean I am admitting my wrong doing and you are Right. It only means that I value our Relationship more than the pride and Ego.

All the blessings of a household come through the wife, therefore should her husband honour her.

He who can feel ashamed will not readily do wrong.

Mention not a blemish which is thy own in detraction of a neighbour.

The best conduct a man can adopt is that which gains him the esteem of others without depriving him of his own.

Well I'm finding it harder to be a gentleman every day All the manners that I've been taught have slowly died away But if I held the door open for you It wouldn't make your day.

Apparently unembittered, she remained a charming, scatterbrained, unpunctual creature, the darling of the public. The Prince, by way of atonement, was always careful to treat her with great respect and courtesy.

But the greatest of these marks of respect was the involuntary homage which Caesar rendered to him, when he made an exception to the contemptuous clemency with which he was wont to treat his opponents, Pompeians as well as republicans, in the case of Cato alone, and pursued him even beyond the grave with that energetic hatred which practical statesmen are wont to feel towards antagonists opposing them from a region of ideas which they regard as equally dangerous and impracticable.

Art respects the masses, by standing up to them for what they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded state.

It is Proust's courtesy to spare the reader the embarrassment of believing himself cleverer than the author.

I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.

Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.

We will be safer from terrorist attack only when we have earned the respect of all other nations instead of their fear, respect for our values and not merely our weapons.

We shall listen, not lecture learn, not threaten. We will enhance our safety by earning the respect of others and showing respect for them. In short, our foreign policy will rest on the traditional American values of restraint and empathy, not on military might.

Like all other virtues, patriotism when carried to excess becomes a vice; but that does not mean that patriotism is incompatible with respect for others.

Democracy means not "I am as good as you are" but "You are as good as I am.

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

I hope you will not have a building of any kind, not a summer cottage, a hotel, or anything else, to mar the wonderful grandeur, the sublimity, the loneliness and beauty of the canyon. Leave it as it is.

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting but never hit soft

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!

Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience.

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

Let the watchwords of all our people be the old familiar watchwords of honesty, decency, fair-dealing, and commonsense."... "We must treat each man on his worth and merits as a man. We must see that each is given a square deal, because he is entitled to no more and should receive no less.""The welfare of each of us is dependent fundamentally upon the welfare of all of us.

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.