Quotes About Respect

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's really attractive.

The bravest thing that men do is love women.

True love is always unconditional. Healthy, loving relationships are never unconditional.

Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good

No man is worth your tears, and when you find the man who is, he'll never make you cry.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Love and respect will make any good relationship better.

The finest kind of friendship is between people who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.

I would not enter in my list of friends, Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path, But he has the humanity, forewarned, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live.

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.

You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.

The man that hails you Tom or Jack, and proves by thumps upon your back how he esteems your merit, is such a friend, that one had need be very much his friend indeed to pardon or to bear it.

For all true love is grounded on esteem.

A REAL man, the kind of man a woman wants to give her life to, is one who will respect her dignity, who will honor her like the valuable treasure she is. A REAL man will not attempt to rip her precious pearl from it's protective shell, or persuade her with charm to give away her treasure prematurely, but he will wait patiently until she willingly gives him the prize of her heart. A REAL man will cherish and care for that prize forever.

The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hopes to her suitor.

Life has taught me that respect, caring and love must be shared, for it's only through sharing that friendships are born.

A man in love will jump to pick up a glove or a bouquet for a silly girl of sixteen, whilst at home he will permit his aged mother to carry pails of water and armfuls of wood, or his wife to lug a twenty-pound baby, hour after hour, without ever offe

Respect is what we owe; love, what we give

Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and moral powers. Blot out from your mind any idea of superiority; you have none.

Love cannot be commanded

Love is appreciating your differences as well as your similarities.

I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.