Quotes About Respect

Sometimes chivalry is just nice,

Don't ever be late. It's like proclaiming that your time is more important than someone else's.

What I'm attempting to do is to show people that if I can spend some time with very dangerous spiders and snakes and scorpions, then maybe they'll feel different about the spiders and snakes they find around their areas. I don't need people to keep them as pets. I just like them to be respectful and see that everything in nature has its place.

I have a lot of respect for marriage.

I have come to dislike anything that demands constant attention, whether it is dogs, dishwashers, or finally men. I like things that are independent, and that need you only because they want you, not because they'll have a breakdown without you.

This tree wishes you no harm. Go around it in peace. You are hurting yourself.

We have caller ID. We know who you are. If we wanted to talk to you, we would have picked up, but obviously we didn't. If you have anything at all that's important to say, you'll have to say it on the machine.

At such times as that, when the TV cameras begin creeping up on a mother weeping at her son's coffin, journalists should wonder where the profession is heading.

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

four key principles: (1) taking the initiative to reach out to others; (2) showing genuine interest in people; (3) treating others with respect and kindness; and (4) valuing others and yourself as unique individuals who have much to share and offer one another.

I'm fortunate that I've been in this business long enough that I've earned the right to be left alone by my record company.

Sometimes the distinction between theft and homage is murky.

If someone is not treating you with love and respect, it is a gift if they walk away from you. If that person doesn't walk away, you will surely endure many years of suffering with him or her. Walking away may hurt for a while, but your heart will eventually heal. Then you can choose what you really want. You will find that you don't need to trust others as much as you need to trust yourself to make the right choices.

Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourslef or to gossip about others. Use your power of your word in the direction of truth and love.

I will not flirt with you or embarrass you. Besides, I am quite sure that if you were willing to marry a Bennet girl, it would be Lizzie. I cannot imagine any man who truly knows her will ever find another woman who can compare to her. I suspect knowing her has made your search for a suitable wife even harder." Darcy

Decried every day as a feckless thing without initiative or ambition, a thing not to be mentioned in the same breath as private enterprise, government became that thing. First sequester its responsibilities, sell off its functions, grant it no respect; run it into the ground and then declare it incompetent.

Also: do not fuck with someone until you know exactly who the fuck you're fucking with. And then don't do it.

Whatever clutter may be getting in your way during a conversation or communication, use the simple acronym HEAR to enter a more spacious and less defensive awareness. HEAR stands for: hold all assumptions; enter the emotional world; absorb and accept; and reflect, then respect. H

Good fences make good neighbors. - John Dortmunder

Always call them 'Sir.' They aren't any harder to kill later!

We must learn that when people devalue any one Life, they devalue all Life.

My race is not a better race, it is simply a different race.

The rewards of golf, and of life too I expect, are worth very little if you don't play the game by the etiquette as well as by the rules.

Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others.