Quotes About Respect

when you mess up, you have to face up to it, make it right. Then people respect you, and even more, you can, you know, respect yourself." She felt a twinge in her gut as she dumped chocolate powder in a mug. "Man," she muttered. "Everybody makes mistakes, but cowards hide from them.

I'll tell you, he's a man of rules. You don't cheat, steal, or lie. You don't misuse animals or take advantage of those weaker than you. You don't spoil for a fight—which is a rule come to be in the last few years—but you don't walk away from one. You stand for your friends and for your round in the pub. You never touch a woman who belongs to another, and you don't give your word unless you intend to keep it.

People who expect less and to be treated as less often get less.

teacher and the guard." He nodded.

Power," Mia told Nell, "carries with it responsibility, a respect for tradition. It must be tempered with compassion, hopefully intelligence, and an understanding of human flaws. It is never to be used carelessly, though there is room for humor. Above all, it must never be used to harm.

Earth, air, water, fire. We call on them, use them, with respect. It's not our power over them, but the merging of our power with theirs.

My family's just as important as yours, and I've got as much money and prestige." "Money and prestige don't buy good manners. You aren't showing any at the moment.

Gram and Pa never liked him. They gave him respect as my husband, as your father, but there was never any genuine affection there on either side.

Be true to yourself, Marco,' he said, 'and anyone who tries to make your truth a lie or shameful isn't worth a single one of your thoughts.

I'll tell you, he's a man of rules. You don't cheat, steal, or lie. You don't misuse animals or take advantage of those weaker than you. You don't spoil for a fight ... but you don't walk away from one. You stand for your friends and for your round in the pub. You never touch a woman who belongs to another, and you don't give your word unless you intend to keep it.

Though name calling is an acceptable stage is a good fight. I could counter that by calling you an overprotective ass, but I'll refrain because I'm a lady.

I wish you all the pleasurable excitement one can have without hurting others and one's own dignity.

We should certainly honor the principle that all people are equal in God's sight and entitled to equal protection of the laws as well as fair, courteous, and respectful treatment. But there is no moral imperative that we adopt the notion that all belief systems are equally true. There is a moral imperative that we do not.

I confess to your Charity that I have learned to yield this respect and honour only to the canonical books of Scripture: of these alone do I most firmly believe that the authors were completely free from error. And if in these writings I am perplexed by anything which appears to me opposed to truth, I do not hesitate to suppose that either the manuscript is faulty, or the translator has not caught the meaning of what was said, or I myself have failed to understand it (Ibid., 82.1.3).

Love never forces itself on another's will. So

If our father had had his say, nobody who did not know how to fish would be allowed to disgrace a fish by catching him.

Once you lose someone's respect it is the hardest thing to win back

When walking in open territory, bother no one. If someone bothers you, ask him to stop. If he does not stop, destroy him.

If any of you in any way hate homosexuals, people of a different color, or women, please do this one favor for us—leave us the fuck alone! Don't come to our shows and don't buy our records.

I would never directly contradict anything Neil deGrasse Tyson says, because—compared to Neil deGrasse Tyson—my skull is a bag of hammers.

Cassie Wright knows, the moment you make yourself available to any man, he starts to take you for granted

Somehow it seems wrong to photograph a blind person. It's like stealing something valuable they don't even know they own.

Our humanity isn't measured by how we treat other people, our humanity is measured by how we treat animals.

It's okay if there isn't a God anymore, but I still want to respect something. I don't want to be the center of my own universe