Quotes About Respect

If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected; if not, they will be despised.

True power and true politeness are above vanity.

Civility is the natural state for people who know how limited their own individual powers are and know, too, that they need the conversation.

People keep saying, 'How'd you get power?' Nobody gives you power. I'll tell you what power is. Power in my estimation is if people will listen to you. That's it.

True power does not amass through the pain and suffering of others.

Being harmless means being so strong, so empowered, that the idea of showing power through harm is not even a part of your consciousness.

There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.

The Tea Party movement as I perceive it is all about recognizing the difference between state and federal powers. And that there are limits to federal power that need to be respected.

I have more respect for somebody who points at his ideal - in this case, the ideal of the pirate - and then becomes something that's more radical, more exciting, more subversive than a pirate could ever be.

If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.

I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him "father."

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

It takes a lifetime to build a good reputation, but you can lose it in a minute.

We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.

The more learned a man is the less consideration he has for another man's belief.

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around

How great, I thought, to honor people while they are still alive.

You can leave the books that you don't like alone, and let other people read them- ancient scholar Yuan Chunglang

What do we owe the dead, our dead? Maybe it's first that we need to remember them.

don't like being interrupted either—but I interrupt other people. I often forget that other people's stories aren't simply introductions to my own more engaging, more dramatic, more relevant, and better-told tales, but rather ends in themselves, tales I can learn from or repeat or dissect or savor.

I often forget that other people's stories aren't simply introductions to my own more engaging, more dramatic, more relevant, and better-told tales, but rather ends in themselves, tales I can learn from or repeat or dissect or savor.

The Etiquette of Illness

How could it ever be to our purpose to rob another living being of his or her purpose?

If our so-called understanding of animals does not ignite within us a loving urge to allow them to fulfill their lives and purposes, to honor, respect and appreciate them, then it is not true understanding. Our science is in many ways incapable of this authentic understanding, and, because it is also often a vehicle of corporate power, it is best not to rely on it too heavily in our quest for wisdom or healing.