Quotes About Respect

Old people needn't think they deserved respect just because they were old.

A people, Dr Alison had said, should be judged by the way they treated those weaker than themselves.

To love someone is to show to them their beauty, their worth and their importance.

When we love and respect people, revealing to them their value, they can begin to come out from behind the walls that protect them.

People cannot accept their own evil if they do not at the same time feel loved, respected and trusted.

When children are loved, they live off trust; their bides and hearts open up to those who respect and love them, who understand and listen to them.

In a relationship of communion, you are you and I am I; I have my identity and you have yours. I must be myself and you must be yourself. We are called to grow together, each one becoming more fully himself or herself. Communion, in fact, gives the freedom to grow. It is not possessiveness. It entails a deep listening to others, helping them to become more fully themselves.

Good manners are not merely snobbish ornaments, as Mrs. Lippett's regime appeared to believe. They mean self-discipline and thought for others, and my children have got to learn them.

so you must be as punctilious in sending them as though it were a bill that you were paying. I hope that they will always be respectful in tone and will reflect credit on your training.

Drummond appreciated his guest's initial silence, his respect for the ancient, sacred act of imbibing. Drink first, talk later.

This isn't the time for bravado, Mr. Orsini,' he said. Brentford couldn't help himself. 'No, it isn't,' he said. 'Perhaps you could come back later?

Riding is the step-by-step seduction of the horse.

If you meet a woman in a burqa, she can't reply to your smile. It's a denial of identity.

Don't kiss me like a woman if you're going to treat me like a child.

I think we need to have a little talk, woman to skank.

Juan gave Bones the most admiring look he'd bestowed on him yet. You talked her into going without panties all these years? Madre de Dios, now that's impressive. I could learn a great deal from you, amigo.

married people were entitled to a certain measure of privacy, that they needn't tell each other everything.

It was one of the reasons she'd fallen in love with him; he didn't press her on personal matters, he was seldom jealous, and he had no interest in annexing or directing her friendships with other men.

Do not judge and you will never be mistaken.

It was important therefore to avoid themes that were difficult or too intellectual, not to shock the spectator's morals by overly bold ideas, and to respect a complex code of conventions that every author, producer and director had to be familiar with, under threat of seeing himself lambasted by the countless leagues in defence of morality – or still worse, confronted by a public boycott.

It's not right to shoot someone because they're not intelligent.

I do not worship their devil. Nor do I worship their other gods--Jesus, Jehovah, the Holy Spirit--but I respect them, for all gods are One. I worship the Great Mother, the one many call Diana, whose secret name the inquisitors shall never know. If this makes me a witch by their definition--very well then, I am a witch, just as surely as they are Christians and murderers.

You can make your life so much larger simply be acknowledging everyone else's.

Do not believe anything merely because you are told it is so, because others believe it, because it comes from Tradition, or because you have imagined it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect. Believe, take for your doctrine, and hold true to that, which, after serious investigation, seems to you to further the welfare of all beings. (47)