Quotes About Respect

I loved you enough to accept you for what you are, not what I wanted you to be.

ALFRED ADLER (in Ansbacher, 1946, p. 358) "The supreme law [of life] is this: the sense of worth of the self shall not be allowed to be diminished.

Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.

People were to be happy not to the extent they dominated their fellow creatures on the earth, but to the extent they lived in balance with them

Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?

Fish, he said, I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.

It could be worse,' Passini said respectfully. There is nothing worse than war. Defeat is worse. I do not believe it, Passini said still respectfully. What is defeat? You go home.

I have a rotten habit of picturing the bedroom scenes of my friends.

don't ask me a lot of questions if you don't like the answers

But I think the Great DiMaggio would be proud of me today.

Then he was sorry for the great fish... How many people will he feed?.. But are they worthy to eat him? No, of course, not. There is no one worthy of eating him from the manner of his behavior and his great dignity.

If you brought up Joyce twice, you would not be invited back.

My God, what would a man do with a woman like that except worship her?

When people talk listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen.

I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.

Too much honor destroys a man quicker than too much of any other fine quality.

Your nationality and your politics did not show when you were dead. Robert

É bom que não tenhamos de tentar matar a lua, o sol ou as estrelas. Já é ruim viver no mar e ter de matar os nossos verdadeiros irmãos

It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea and the old man had always considered it so and respected it.

Montoya could forgive anything of a bull-fighter who had afición. He could forgive attacks of nerves, panic, bad unexplainable actions, all sorts of lapses. For one who had afición he could forgive anything. At once he forgave me all my friends. Without his ever saying anything they were simply a little something shameful between us, like the spilling open of the horses in bull-fighting.

Don't be snotty too soon. And then don't be snotty at all.

In a war we must all be careful not to hurt each other's feelings.

Férfit meg szabad ölni. Megátalkodni is szabad. De megsérteni nem.

It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea and the old man had always considered it so and respected it. But