Quotes About Respect

Let us concentrate all our efforts on achieving perfection through the imperfect gestures of everyday life. True wisdom means respecting the simple things we do, for they can take us where we need to go.

Do not do to another that which you would abhor being done to you; that is the law. All the rest is legal commentary.

Loyalty can never be imposed by force, fear, insecurity, or intimidation.

Au lieu de t'acheter un objet que tu aimerais posséder, je te donne un objet qui m'appartiens, vraiment à moi, un cadeau. C'est un témoignage de respect envers celui qui se tient face à moi. une façon de lui faire comprendre combien il importe d'être près de lui. Il possède maintenant une petite part de moi-même, que je lui ai librement et spontanément remise.

Justkui nõudepesemine või rinnahoidja kandmine või see, et keegi mulle uksi avab ja sulgeb – justukui alandaks see mind kui naist. Tegelikult ma kaifin, kui mees mulle ukse lahti teeb, etiketi järgi tähendab see:"Tal on vaja, et ma teda aitan, sest ta on nõrk." Kuid minu jaoks:"Mind koheldakse kui jumalannat, ma olen kuninganna.

Stop thinking all the time that you're in the way, that you're bothering the person next to you. If people don't like it, they can complain. And if they don't have the courage to complain, that's their problem.

Each movement during combat honors the movements that the previous generations tried to transmit through the Tradition.

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

Well, I'm working on a project now with some women who are working as strippers." I liked the way she said that: "women who are working as strippers." Not "strippers." She made stripping what they did for a living, not who they were.

Bad judgement and carelessness are not punishable by rape.

Do not test the measure of his love for you by the way he expresses his body's heat. He is not thinking of you at those times. He is thinking of himself.

None of us is so much better or wiser than any other than he can destroy a single creature without destroying something of himself.

I believe in the equality of man and woman," Rulan insisted. "Ah," Madame Wu said, "two equals are nevertheless not the same two things. They are equal in importance, equally necessary to life, but not the same

But the important lesson which he taught me was that if one would be happy he must not raise his head above his neighbor's. "He who raises his head above the heads of others," Mr. Kung said, "will sooner or later be decapitated.

Learn the good that you can of the foreign people and reject the unsuitable.

Ah well, Liang was her husband and she would never have another. Even had she been young and beautiful she would not have run from man to man as women did nowadays. But she was neither young nor beautiful and she was grateful for Liang. It was honorable to be his wife, and if he had a peevish temper at home, he might have been worse. He had never beaten her, and she had learned, after all these years, how to torture him.

It is easy to destroy, but it is hard to create. Do not destroy what your brother creates.

Even our enemies call him 'great soul,' and declare that they are honored in defeat by such a one.

Yes, their ancients had taught them that no good man would be a soldier and that the warlike man was the least of men and not to be respected, and so they had all believed.

Any good lover is a good listener. And a bad listener is at best a bad lover and at worst a rapist.

A self-confident person isn't boastful or pushy but is secure with herself in a way that inspires confidence in others. She values herself regardless of her physical attributes or individual talents, understanding that honor and character are what really matter.

A person who respects herself isn't boastful or pushy but is secure in a way that inspires confidence.

Honesty without kindness, humor, and goodheartedness can be just mean.

Meditation practice is not about later, when you get it all together and you're this person you really respect.