Quotes About Respect

MI is done "for" and "with" a person. It is an active collaboration between experts. People are the undisputed experts on themselves. No one has been with them longer, or knows them better than they do themselves.

these four person-centered conditions convey what we mean by "acceptance." One honors each person's absolute worth and potential as a human being, recognizes and supports the person's irrevocable autonomy to choose his or her own way, seeks through accurate empathy to understand the other's perspective, and affirms the person's strengths and efforts.

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form. ~William Ralph Inge

My father taught me that reputation, not money, was the most important thing in the world.

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.

People are people. Don't be afraid of them.

Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.

The purest treasure mortal times affordIs spotless reputation.

Shall I bend low, and in a bondman's key,With bated breath, and whispering humbleness,Say this.

That in the captain's but a choleric word,Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.

I have boughtGolden opinions from all sorts of people.

For new-made honor doth forget men's names.

The grass stoops not, she treads on it so light.

Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbearTo dig the dust enclosed here;Blest be the man that spares these stones,And curst be he that moves my bones.

I am Sir Oracle,And when I ope my lips let no dog bark!

There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats;For I am arm'd so strong in honestyThat they pass by me as the idle wind,Which I respect not.

Nature's above art in that respect.

The mirror of all courtesy.

He was not born to shame:Upon his brow shame is asham'd to sit.

You tread upon my patience.

Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods,Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds.

I know thee not, old man: fall to thy prayers;How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!

This was the noblest Roman of them all.

Keep a good tongue in your head.