Quotes About Respect

Ellis, A. (2003) How To Keep People From Pushing Your Buttons. New York: Citadel Press.

Beauvoir lent Maheu a recent English novel she had enjoyed, The Green Hat , by Michael Arlen. She admired its independent heroine, Iris Storm. Maheu did not. 'I have no liking for women of easy virtue,' he told her. 'Much as I like a woman to please me, I find it impossible to respect any woman I've had.' Beauvoir was indignant. 'One does not have an Iris Storm!

The best way to make ourselves agreeable to others is by seeming to think them so. If we appear fully sensible of their good qualities they will not complain of the want of them in us.

There is not anything one should not be ready to tolerate, and there is nobody whom one should not forgive. Never doubt those whom you trust; never hate those whom you love; never cast down those whom you once raise in your estimation. Wish to make friends with everyone you meet; make an effort to gain the friendship of those you find difficult; become indifferent to them only of you cannot succeed in your effort. Never wish to break the friendship once made.

Die Sufis sagen, "die Kaaba, der heilige Ort, das Paradies ist das Herz des Menschen." Deswegen respektieren sie jedes Herz. Jedes Herz ist ihre Kaaba, ihr Heiligtum. Sie verbeugen sich vor dem Menschenherzen, denn in diesem Herzen lebt Gott. (S. 240)

Vlad made a mental note to amend the friend code: thou shalt not date the girl that thy best friend has a crush on...nor shalt thou try sticking thy best friend in the chest with a sharp hunk of wood.

Someday, my young friend, you'll find out that girls are actually people too. Just like you and me.

If I ever find you lurking about in my thoughts again, Vlad, I will be most displeased. You stay out of my mind, and I'll sty out of yours. Agreed?

You didn't crush flowers, you didn't squeeze birds, and you didn't break your mum.

Wait - Miss Bramble-" "Don't call me that!" said Azalea. Something, perhaps hurt, flickered through Mr. Bradford's soft eyes. "Princess Bramble," he said.

The wisdom of elders is ancient and necessary in human history, and there is deep value in being skeptical of the wisdom of elders, when that wisdom is out of place, or of the wrong time.

no one deserved the finest the American public could give more than the men and women who served in the military.

Let's hope that very soon it won't matter whether we're red, black, tan, yellow, white…male or female. Or whether we believe in the White Buffalo Woman, the teachings of Buddha, Allah or God.

One more thing, Callie," he called after her. He was stripping off his dirty frock coat, watching her. "What?" "I don't call any man property—you know that we freed all of our slaves." "Yes, you told me." He smiled. "Well, I just want you to know that I do consider a wife a man's property. You'll be mine." "We'll just have to see, won't we?" Callie said sweetly in reply.

Coaches will eventually notice a great attitude, and they respect that.

To develop your intuition, you need to respect it as a natural intelligence.

You cannot help being a female, and I should be something of a fool were I to discount your talents merely because of their housing.

I think it's funny when people assume that I have to put up with their insulting shit to my face. Rude awakening, table for one please.

I do support artists standing by their beliefs and walking with integrity. We have to find a better way to commercially exploit music while giving artists their proper respect. This cannot be done while taking their contributions for granted or trying to control the scope of their growth and power through threats and fear tactics.

It's difficult because we live in a world that doesn't really respect the creative and intellectual contributions of women. It's more like "Oh, you're so cute. Be quiet. Shhh, don't talk too much.

Trust not him with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.

La relación entre ambos se basaba en la admiración y el respeto mutuos y en el amor

But perhaps the most important lesson I learned is that there are no walls between humans and the elephants except those that we put up ourselves, and that until we allow not only elephants, but all living creatures their place in the sun, we can never be whole ourselves.

Wild. If there is one thing I disapprove of it's the unnatural capture and taming of wild animals, whether an elephant or a bird. To me, the only good cage is an empty cage.