Quotes About Respect

It's probably not a good idea to be chewing on a toothpick if you're talking to the president, because what if he tells a funny joke and you laugh so hard you spit the toothpick out and it hits him in the face or something.

Persons who have no desire to live have a very slight chance of recovery. We can continue to extend to them our love, sympathy, and prayers; but ultimately we must respect a person's decision to die.

You can't force anyone to love you or lend you money.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.

Never tell your mom her diet's not working. - Advice From Kids

Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.

When an American says that he loves his country, he ... means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.

I had learned to respect the intelligence, integrity, creativity and capacity for deep thought and hard work latent somewhere in every child; they had learned that I differed from them only in years and experience, and that as I, an ordinary human being, loved and respected them, I expected payment in kind.

I don't want to be love the same way an athlete loves is sport. Of course he loves the game, but his indubitable adulation is his will to compete. Love me for who I am don't try and conquer me.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Honor the ocean of love.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

Love your parents and your children will have loving grandparents.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood. The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others.

A friend drops their plans when you're in trouble, shares joy in your accomplishments, feels sad when you're in pain. A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice--but when you don't follow it, they still respect and love you.

Respect is love in plain clothes.

There is but one genuine love-potion - consideration.

The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down; aspires and not despairs.

True love is the parent of humility

We need not think alike to love alike.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Love is willing to wait instead of demanding,prove you care.