Quotes About Respect

If people speak ill of you, live so that no one will believe them. —Plato

And if he thinks you're to blame, and you're the one telling him to calm down…well! Keep a respectful distance from his claws.

Your private life is your private life and you keep it to yourself. You get more respect that way.

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way it treats its animals." —MAHATMA GANDHI

The key to a long and healthy marriage is that, honestly, there's nothing worth fighting about.

My government, you can be assured, will be less focused on personalities. It is about treating people with respect. I think complaining about the community not being able to see the wisdom of our ideas is the wrong approach.

Without having planned it—and without any official sanction—Chamberlain suddenly gave the order for Union soldiers to "carry arms" as a sign of their deepest mark of military respect. A bugle call instantly rang out. All along the road, Union soldiers raised their muskets to their shoulders, the salute of honor.

I didn't say a word. I just stared at him. I figured I didn't owe him an answer, and I was too proud to even talk. I didn't want to tell him a damn thing about me.

Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don't even have to like your music. If you're big enough, people are drawn to you.

He needs to respect you and know you mean business, but it's not your business to be mean.

No hay nada más bello que un hombre cuando avanza. El soldado que sale de las filas y declara que él es voluntario. El torero que sale del burladero, despide a sus peones y despliega su capa... Todo se resquebraja en el corazón de los otros hombres cuando uno de ellos avanza dos pasos, se separa del grupo y forja, así, en derredor suyo, la infranqueable barrera del respeto

I'm not willing just to be tolerated. That wounds my love of love and of liberty.

To Squanto, as to all Native Americans, the land did not belong to the people, people belonged to the land.

We should keep silent about those in power to speak well of them almost implies flattery to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Tutto ciò che è nel tempo passerà con il tempo e nulla di ciò che appartiene a questo mondo transitorio e fragile merita più di un rispetto un po' distaccato e di un assenso ironico. Si può benissimo morire per la propria patria, per le proprie idee, per quelli che si amano. Non c'è niente di più onorevole. Ma soltanto ciò che è eterno merita un affetto senza riserve.

N-am auzit niciodat? pe cineva vorbindu-ne despre trecut f?r? s? vorbeasc? ?i despre moarte. Iar viitorul de asemenea, nu ne vorbe?te decât de moarte. Nu ne r?mâne decât prezentul pentru a încerca, oarecum în zadar, s? ?inem moartea la respect. Via?a nu-i niciodat? nimic altceva decât o lung? retragere în fa?a mor?ii.

Author says that, while Eisenhower had other intellectual mentors, he learned how to lead men from Gen. Walter Krueger. Krueger was the first American enlisted man to rise to four-star general, and he so identified with those he led that he once invited a sentry out of the rain and gave him his own dry uniform.

people with different ideas from one's own were not the enemy; they were simply people with different ideas. Hearing them out carried, he supposed, some small potential for having one's mind changed, but it was far more likely to strengthen the opinion you already had, so why all the fear?

It means: I bow to the divine light within you and you bow to the divine light within me.

What kind of protest declines dialogue with its opponent?" "A modern one," Francine said dryly. "These kids are not like we were. You were," she corrected. "Interaction across the battle lines isn't what they're after. They want to build their own constituencies. They want to represent something to their peers more than they want to gain respect from their opponents.

respected your mother, and she honors that.

Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt.

Dignity is particularly important.

A cultural value shift is also in order. College-educated people should consciously reconsider their attitudes toward skilled trades and give them the respect they deserve.