Quotes About Respect

Open yourself to the sight, and it will show you what you need to know. But never attempt to bend it to your will. Never pry into a particular life that has been brought to your care. That is to break trust.

People revered his father as the Lion of Punjab, but his mother is the one they should have called Lioness.

Something had happened as I lay in the field, watching the sky, an understanding that I couldn't control the lives of others—but neither could they control mine.

it's not enough to merely love someone. Even if we love them with our entire being, even if we're willing to commit the most heinous sin for their well-being. We must understand and respect the values that drive them. We must want what they want, not what we want for them.

Distance is a great promoter of harmony

Now, for the first time, he looked at me with respect, the way one might gaze at an equal. It made me glow with satisfaction. At the same time, though, I was saddened. What I'd taken as admiration all these years had really been a kind of indulgence, the way one might praise a child for her childish achievements.

Where women are honored, there the gods are pleased.) —Manusmriti 3/56, 100 CE

Good daughters are fortunate lamps, brightening the family's name.

be polite and respectful to all and don't take sides.

This is what Kaikeyi failed to see: it's not enough to merely love someone. Even if we love them with our entire being, even if we're willing to commit the most heinous sin for their well-being. We must understand and respect the values that drive them. We must want what they want, not what we want for them.

Alexander did not dare request what he really desired, though he knew that if he asked him for his sweetheart's hand he would have it. But he was so afraid of displeasing her (who would have been overjoyed) that he preferred to suffer without her than have her against her will.

When a man fails to honour ladies, his own honour must be dead.

Because no one has ever seen a woman behave so wrongly as to ask a man to love her, unless she were more deranged than the next person. I would be a proven fool if I ever spoke a word that would bring me reproach. If he were to learn it from my mouth, I think he would lose esteem for me and lastingly reproach me for having spoken first. May love never stoop so low that I beseech him first since he would then esteem me less.

My mother taught me to treat a lady respectfully.

I'm not gonna say that I hate it, because I really respect Usher and I was influenced by him. But so many people compare me to him, and I don't think it'll ever stop. I just want to be my own artist.

I'm 18 in this album. I'm not losing fans, and I'm not disrepecting women, but you reach the maturity of taking it to the next level with a girl. It was only necessary for me to have at least one song like that.

And the greatest lesson that mom ever taught me though was this one. She told me there would be times in your life when you have to choose between being loved and being respected. Now she said to always pick being respected.

Peace is a time when people can tell each other their real names

What you take from the earth, you must give back. That's nature's way.

Honor your father and your mother that your days may be long upon the land.

My father and I are very similar and have a wonderful relationship, but we both stand by our opinions.

Friendship, as far as I'm concerned, is a delicate and rare thing that's built up over time and is predicated on mutual trust, mutual respect, reciprocal interests and share commitments. It's a relation that ultimately is lived out, at least as if it were chosen not taken for granted or assumed in advance. It's something that has to be renegotiated at every step, not demanded unconditionally.

You know, it's possible for two humans to be in a relationship without there needing to be some public reason for that relationship.

It's always flattering when somebody you really respect and like wants you to be involved in their project - let alone writes a part with your voice in mind.