Quotes About Respect

These days, managers are little more than peers with additional administrative responsibility. Sucking up to them is not a good use of your time.

You shouldn't say it is not good. You should say, you do not like it and then, you know, you're perfectly safe.

To come devotedly into the depths of a subject, your respect for it increasing in every step and your whole heart weakening apart with shame upon yourself in your dealing with it : To know at length better and better and at length into the bottom of your soul your unworthiness of it : Let me hope in any case that it is something to have begun to learn.

Children must not stare at their elders," he said. "That is ill-bred." "Huh?" both of them asked. What's "stare," they wondered; "elders"; "ill-bred"? "Say, 'Sir,' or 'I beg your pardon, Father.' " "Sir?" Rufus said. "You," Father Jackson said to Catherine. "Sir?" Catherine said. "You must not stare at people—look at them, as you are looking at me.

You're a fine little boy," Mr. Starr, said. "But it isn't nice of you to lord it over your sister." "What's 'lord it'?" "Brag about things you can do, that she can't do yet. That isn't nice.

And it was respect he needed, infinitely more than love. Just not to have to worry about whether people respect you. Not ever to have to feel that people are being nice to you because they are sorry for you, or afraid of you.

I remembered a definition of chivalry I'd heard once: a man protecting a woman against every man but himself.

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.

I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.

Minnie said, "Better not to ask." "That's our family in a nutshell." "You got that right.

P.S. Do no violence. Kill no one.

Conquering cities may not be held against kings, but kicking like an ass should be.

IN LAK'ECH Tú eres mi otro yo. You are my other me. Si te hago daño a ti, If I do harm to you, Me hago daño a mi mismo. I do harm to myself. Si te amo y respeto, If I love and respect you, Me amo y respeto yo. I love and respect myself.

y es que el amor pues como que es una cosa de dos personas o más si se quiere pero que no debe salir de esas dos o tres o seis personas porque a nadie le puede interesar a nadie le debe interesar ¿verdad? lo que esas personas hagan con sus vidas privadas

Free trade is very important if we respect equality among nations.

I always want to have a personal relationship with everybody that works for me.

You cannot trust 25 guys in a locker room to have the same respect and training as I do with a weapon. That I do understand. I've carried a gun for 10 years. I've carried them in the locker room, and nobody really knows about it. I know how to handle myself.

You know, I've carried a weapon for 10 years, never shot anybody, never robbed anybody. It has saved my life twice, but I know they're not toys. I practice with firearms, I enjoy shooting, it's a hobby of mine and I have a healthy respect for them.

It's always been my personal feeling that unless you are married, there is something that is not very dignified about talking about who you are dating.

Abuse and respect are diametric opposites: You do not respect someone whom you abuse, and you do not abuse someone whom you respect.

It is fine to commiserate with a man about his bad experience with a previous partner, but the instant he uses her as an excuse to mistreat you, stop believing anything he tells you about that relationship and instead recognize it as a sign that he has problems with relating to women.

Disrespect also can take the form of idealizing you and putting you on a pedestal as a perfect woman or goddess, perhaps treating you like a piece of fine china. The man who worships you in this way is not seeing you; he is seeing his fantasy, and when you fail to live up to that image he may turn nasty. So there may not be much difference between the man who talks down to you and the one who elevates you; both are displaying a failure to respect you as a real human being and bode ill.

Encourage the women in your life—your friends, sisters, mothers, daughters—to insist on dignity and respect, to have faith in themselves, to be proud. Expect boys and men to be respectful, kind, and responsible, and don't settle for less.

The underlying attitude comes bursting out of his words: He believes his wife is keeping something of his away from him when she doesn't want intimate contact. He sees sexual rights to a woman as akin to mineral rights to land—and he owns them.