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Quotes About Respect

When I tell you to go out and tell one of these palookas that I'm out, go out and tell 'em I'm out. Don't have these buzzards walk in on me. When I don't wanna see 'em I don't...don't look at me that way.
~ W.C. Fields
Some thirty inches from my nose The frontier of my Person goes, And all the untilled air between Is private pagus or demesne. Stranger, unless with bedroom eyes I beckon you to fraternize, Beware of rudely crossing it: I have no gun, but I can spit.
~ W.H. Auden
We yield at once with humbled mien, Because, with all our faults, we love our Queen.
~ Unknown
If you're oblivious to other people, chances are pretty good that you're going to hurt them.
~ William Deresiewicz
I have as much input to the blues; I just never got the chance, the opportunity or maybe the respect.
~ Luther Allison
All of us should banish hateful communications and practice civility for differences of opinion.
~ Dallin H. Oaks
You can have no influence over those for whom you have underlying contempt.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
~ John Locke
Learning is too precious to be motivated by coercive tactics.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
Apply this simple rule to your conversations: If you wouldn't write it down and sign it, don't say it.
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Communication is only possible between equals.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
Talk to everybody with reverence. Listen to everybody with reverence. Say things with reverence. You will always be happy and graceful.
~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi
In many ways, effective communication begins with mutual respect, communication that inspires, encourages others to do their best.
~ Zig Ziglar
Successful communication depends on how well we listen, rather than how well we push our opinions on the person seated before us.
~ Kenya Hara
If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
~ James Whistler
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Always listen to what people need rather than what they are thinking about us.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
Don't tell your friends about your indigestion. "How are you" is a greeting, not a question.
~ Arthur Guiterman
The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably.
~ Hayley Atwell
When we're each aware of our own Magnificence, we don't feel the need to control others, and we won't allow ourselves to be controlled.
~ Anita Moorjani
To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable.
~ Barry Goldwater
Understanding the other persons' needs does not mean you have to give up on your own needs.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
I don't think you can have an authentic connection when one person is diagnosing the other.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
Never throw mud. You may miss the mark, and you'll have dirty hands.
~ Joseph Parker