Quotes About Respect

Young man, names are powerful things. You don't just go around using them for no reason.

Make Way for Ducklings, or They Will Smack You Upside the Head

provides a handy and interesting passage to the Holocaust memorial

If you are a member of a small group or class, I urge you to make a group covenant that includes the nine characteristics of biblical fellowship: We will share our true feelings (authenticity), forgive each other (mercy), speak the truth in love (honesty), admit our weaknesses (humility), respect our differences (courtesy), not gossip (confidentiality), and make group a priority (frequency).

Frankness is not a license to say anything you want, wherever and whenever you want. It is not rudeness.

Gossip is passing on information when you are neither part of the problem nor part of the solution.

Every parent knows that delayed obedience is really disobedience.

Courtesy is respecting our differences, being considerate of each other's feelings, and being patient with people who irritate us.

You are never persuasive when you're abrasive.

When someone begins to gossip to you, have the courage to say, "Please stop. I don't need to know this. Have you talked directly to that person?" People who gossip to you will also gossip about you. They cannot be trusted.

Accept each other just as Christ has accepted you; then God will be glorified.

Much good may honour do them when they're dead

He likes women, children, dogs, really what can you fault?' Pamela wrote. 'It's just a shame he's a dictator with no respect for the law or common humanity.

My grandmother told me something I've never forgotten. 'Never fuck anyone you wouldn't want to be.' -audience member

Leanne, would you kindly remove your nose from my ass? It's starting to chafe. - Noelle

Tradition, Honor, Excellence.

I don't want anything but my own way. That is wanting a good deal, of course, when you have to trample upon the lives, the hearts, the prejudices of others [...]

Don't part from me in any ill humor. I never knew you to be out of patience with me before.

Other people's tragedies should not be the subject of idle conversation.

Kate DiCamillo

You have too high an opinion of the high command

But if the gods only cursed us, then we would hate them. And if they only blessed us, then—well, then we'd care nothing for their laws because we'd respect nothing but our own pleasure.

L'âme d'autrui est une forêt obscure où il faut marcher avec précaution. (The soul of another is a dark forest in which one must tread carefully.)

you can't get caught up in worrying about whether everyone you work with likes you. Ultimately you want the respect of your coworkers