Quotes About Respect

The best thing a father can do for his son is love his mother.

My brother, the golden boy. It's been this way all our lives. No matter what Matteo does, he is revered.

You know that wedding ring doesn't have magical powers. It doesn't give you licence to be cruel, and it can't keep you faithful.

He said a man should always have to work hard to win a woman's heart, because when he gets it, it's worth it, and he'll never take it for granted.

The Lord does not simply wipe out their sorrow. He respects it; indeed, he welcomes it.

For many men value appearances more than reality—thus they violate what's right. Everyone's prepared to sigh over some suffering man, though no sorrow really eats their hearts, or they can pretend to join another person's happiness forcing their faces into smiling masks. But a good man discerns true character— he's not fooled by eyes feigning loyalty, favouring him with watered-down respect.

You patronize me like some little woman with no mind to call her own. I speak with heart devoid of fear to those with wit to understand, and you can praise me or condemn me as you like, it's all the same to me.

I salute you as the Gates of Death

Uninvited guests are often most welcome when they leave

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.

Having tasted the honeycomb, he threw down his axe, and looking on the tree as sacred, took great care of it.

Precious things are for those that can prize them.

Only cowards insult dying majesty.

Oh, stop! stop! I beg of you: what is sport to you is death to us.

Tahu berterima kasih adalah tanda sikap ksatria.

Do not malign the words of a sage even if they seem trivial, for they contain the loftiest wisdom.

YOU'RE IN MY MOUTH, I said. GET OUT OF MY MOUTH.

We should add that it is a privilege to be the recipient of a sulk: it means the other person respects and trusts us enough to think we should understand their unspoken hurt. It is one of the odder gifts of love.

The partner truly best suited to us is not the one who miraculously happens to share every taste, but the one who can negotiate differences in taste with intelligence and grace.

You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them.

One has to go into relationships with equal expectations, ready to give as much as the other - not with one person wanting a fling and the other real love...

We owe it to the fields that our houses will not be the inferiors of the virgin land they have replaced. We owe it to the worms and the trees that the building we cover them with will stand as promises of the highest and most intelligent kinds of happiness.

it seems impossible to talk of love and letting live, and if we are left to live, we are not usually loved.

We can conclude from this that we are drawn to call something beautiful whenever we detect that it contains in a concentrated form those qualities in which we personally, or our societies more generally, are deficient. We respect a style which can move us away from what we fear and towards what we crave: a style which carries the correct dosage of our missing virtues.