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Quotes About Respect

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.
~ Margaret Walker
My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument."
~ Desmond Tutu
Dressing well is a form of good manners.
~ Tom Ford
I love Obama because he is proof all black people don't look alike. Nobody every told me, 'Good morning, Mr. President.' We don't all look alike.
~ Paul Mooney
Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused.
~ Tommy Lee Jones
A good neighbor sometimes cuts your morning up to mince-meat of the very smallest talk, then helps to sugar her bohea at night with your reputation.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them.
~ Laurence Binyon
If you want to gnaw greenery in the morning for health reasons, do it in your own home with the curtains drawn.
~ Victoria Coren Mitchell
The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.
~ Chief Joseph
Do not use the sharpness of your speech on your mother who taught you how to speak.
~ Ali ibn Abi Talib
My mother taught me to treat a lady respectfully.
~ Chris Brown
The Clan Mothers ran everything and had the last word. I think that's the answer.
~ Floyd Red Crow Westerman
Even the people who come our way look upon us in amazement, that we run only for the healing of Mother Earth
~ Dennis Banks
If I walk in a home and a kid disrespects a woman, his mother or grandmother, then I am out... I wont recruit them
~ John Calipari
Be at your mother's feet and there is the Paradise.
~ Ibn Majah
Because wherever I am today, I still owe it to God and I owe it to two men - the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X and of course, two very special women, my mother and my wife.
~ Louis Farrakhan
A chair must be really important as an object, because my mother always told me to offer my chair to a lady
~ Ettore Sottsass
When we walk upon Mother Earth, we always plant our feet carefully because we know the faces of our future generations are looking up at us from beneath the ground. we never forget them.
~ Oren Lyons
You're a man, but the day you raise your voice to your mother, you're not anymore.
~ Tariq Ramadan
Is there not something worthy of perpetuation in our Indian spirit of democracy, where Earth, our mother, was free to all, and no one sought to impoverish or enslave his neighbor?
~ Charles Alexander Eastman
Don't tell your kids you had an easy birth or they won't respect you. For years I used to wake up my daughter and say, 'Melissa you ripped me to shreds. Now go back to sleep.'.
~ Joan Rivers
My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jesus wasn't a Christian, she would stomp you to death.
~ Dick Gregory
You know which title I like best? I like to be called mother.
~ Jayne Mansfield
Heaven lieth at the feet of mothers.
~ Muhammad