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Quotes About Respect

I've taught martial arts to many children, from 5 years old and up - there's character development, there's respect, discipline, perseverance.
~ Scott Coker
It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.
~ John Ruskin
Never judge a person if you don't know him.
~ Zlatan Ibrahimovic
I'd rather be dealt with as a person than a persona.
~ Queen Rania of Jordan
Si monsieur votre père daigne éjaculer quelquefois dans votre petite bouche, acceptez cela les yeux baissés, et comme un grand honneur dont vous n'êtes pas digne. Surtout n'allez pas ensuite vous en vanter comme une sotte à l'oreille de votre maman.
~ Pierre Louÿs
The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not worshipped; it is our future in which we will find our greatness.
~ Pierre Trudeau
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
~ Pierre Trudeau
I speak of a Canada where men and women of aboriginal ancestry, of French and British heritage, of the diverse cultures of the world, demonstrate the will to share this land in peace, in justice and with mutual respect.
~ Pierre Trudeau
When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want to drop you in the Void.
~ Piers Anthony
Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.
~ Plato
Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
~ Plato
You should not honor men more than truth.
~ Plato
Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
~ Pliny the Elder
Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy.
~ Plutarch
Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
~ Plutarch
When someone blamed Hecataeus the sophist because that, being invited to the public table, he had not spoken one word all supper-time, Archidamidas answered in his vindication 'He who knows how to speak, knows also when'.
~ Plutarch
But being overborne with numbers, and nobody daring to face about, stretching out his hands to heaven, [Romulus] prayed to Jupiter to stop the army, and not to neglect but maintain the Roman cause, now in extreme danger. The prayer was no sooner made, than shame and respect for their king checked many; the fears of the fugitives changed suddenly into confidence.
~ Plutarch
Demaratus, being asked in a troublesome manner by an importunate fellow, Who was the best man in Lacedaemon? answered at last, 'He, Sir, that is the least like you'.
~ Plutarch
For they either believe their colleagues to be their equals and so they fight against them; or they believe them to be superior and so they envy them; or they believe them inferior and so they despise them. We must, however, pay court to the colleague who is superior, make the inferior better, and honor the equal.
~ Plutarch
Another Spartan, when he saw men sitting on stools in a lavatory, declared: "May I never sit where it is impossible for me to get up and offer my seat to an older man.
~ Plutarch
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
~ Plutarch
Similarly that is no true democracy in which the whole crowd of citizens is free to do whatever they wish or purpose, but when, in a community where it is traditional and customary to reverence the gods, to honor our parents, to respect our elders, and to obey the laws, the will of the greater number prevails, this is to be called a democracy.
~ Polybius
It is deplorable that homosexual persons have been and are the object of violent malice in speech or in action. Such treatment deserves condemnation from the church's pastors wherever it occurs... The intrinsic dignity of each person must always be respected in work, in action and in law.
~ Pope Benedict XVI
If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?
~ Pope Francis