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Quotes About Respect

This may allay awareness of the guilt, but at the cost of perceiving the mind as impotent. If you believe that what you think is ineffectual you may cease to be afraid of it, but you are hardly likely to respect it. There are no idle thoughts. All thinking produces form at some level.
~ Helen Schucman
I don't think a tough question is disrespectful.
~ Helen Thomas
There will always be a desire for something new, fresh and innovative, as well as a yearning and respect for timeless elegance and beauty.
~ Helena Christensen
If our starting point is a respect for nature and people, diversity is an inevitable consequence. If technology and the needs of the economy are our starting point, then we have what we are faced with today—a model of development that is dangerously distanced from the needs of particular peoples and places and rigidly imposed from the top down.
~ Helena Norberg-Hodge
But in the same way that you can listen to a part of yourself without agreeing with it, you can listen to your partner, or indeed anyone, with compassion without giving up your own position. You gain both closeness and true power by acknowledging what someone else thinks and feels. An
~ Helene Brenner
Today, while the wound is still hurting, or while the fury is still seething, such happy talk only makes you feel alienated from the rest of humanity. Today, what you want is for others to respect, or even better, echo resoundingly with the truth of your present experience. One
~ Helene Brenner
The sign orders flatly: COMMIT NO NUISANCE.
~ Helene Hanff
Leadership presence involves humility. As Andrea Zintz, career coach and president of Strategic Leadership Resources, clarifies, humility is not about diminishing your stature but rather involves benevolence, consideration,
~ Helene Lerner
generosity, and graciousness. By keeping humility in mind, you rise above the challenges to build trust.
~ Helene Lerner
Executive coach Alan Allard told me, "Listening shows respect, even if you don't agree with what the person is saying.
~ Helene Lerner
When you leave your ego at the door and stop trying to be the smartest person in the room, your opinions and ideas will be more appropriately valued and appreciated" (and that's applicable to both genders). He told me that to be heard, women should offer insights regularly rather than only expressing the occasional opinion.
~ Helene Lerner
We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people.
~ Helmut Kohl
He was so excessively polite that Wallendar suspected he had endured many humiliations in his life.
~ Henning Mankell
Not having time for a person, not being able to sit in silence together with somebody, that's the same as rejecting them, as being scornful about them.
~ Henning Mankell
There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
When people show you their boundaries ("I can't do this for you") you feel rejected...part of your struggle is to set boundaries to your own love. Only when you are able to set your own boundaries will you be able to acknowledge, respect and even be grateful for the boundaries of others.
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
~ Henrik Ibsen
Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.
~ Henry Adams
Contrary to popular opinion, manners are not a luxury good that's interesting only to those who can afford to think about them. The essence of good manners is not exclusivity, nor exclusion of any kind, but sensitivity. To practice good manners is to confer upon others not just consideration but esteem; it's to bathe others in a commodity best described by noted speller Aretha Franklin.
~ Henry Alford
Do no dishonour to the earth least you dishonour the spirit of man.
~ Henry Beston
For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.
~ Henry Beston
The animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth.
~ Henry Beston
The animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth.
~ Henry Beston
Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.
~ Henry Bolingbroke