Quotes About Respect

How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these."—GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER

We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.

It's clear that politeness to one's elders can't always be justified on the basis of the elder's superior wisdom. It's just that it's not attractive to see a young person answering an older person back.

Reverence is an emotion that we can nurture in our very young children, respect is an attitude that we instill in our children as they become school-agers, and responsibility is an act that we inspire in our children as they grow through the middle years and become adolescents.

Goddamn it, Harry. You can't go falling for someone right in front of me after I got my heart broken. It's just plain rude.

SOAR Showing of Awesome Respect!!

Be kind to all and rude to none.

Be kind to everybody and everybody will be kind to you.

Be nice to everyone. Be kind to everyone. Love those who don't deserve your love.

For peace, let us teach humanity tolerance and nonviolence.

For peace, let us teach the humanity tolerance and nonviolence.

Let us love and respect each other as a friend, not stranger.

Respond with love and kindness even to hurtful treatment.

The deepness of human love and dignity will define the tolerance of humanity.

True happiness will be there when we learn to respect and love our women.

Whatever you do, love everybody around you.

Grandpa Patterson used to say: Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from any direction.

Jews, together with other religious and ethnic minorities, have always thrived in societies where freedom of speech and religion have been highly valued. They have blossomed in societies that welcome an array of cultures and beliefs.

The clueless antisemite is an otherwise nice and well-meaning person who is completely unaware that she has internalized antisemitic stereotypes and is perpetuating them. The only proper response, however hard it may be for you, is to politely tell this person that what she said comes under the category of an insidious and insulting ethnic stereotype.

The judges' primary objective was to conduct a scrupulously fair legal proceeding that would win the respect of the world. Hausner's goal was to tell the story of the Holocaust in all its detail, and in so doing, to capture the imagination not just of Israel's youth and world Jewry, but of the entire world . -- The Eichmann Trial, page 121

He wasn't moved by the profanity-laced diatribe, and he saw no reason to reply in kind. He himself didn't cuss, his older brother Noah having told them time and time again that a man who needed to punctuate his point with obscenities really didn't have a point to make.

For millennia, Native Americans have had a relationship with the land that encompasses respect and appreciation for all it provides.

Look what love does...This was the real Islam, the Islam of love, not hate. Muhammad would be proud.

Pride and respect are earned, not given by birth.