Quotes About Respect

It had been my father's way to remove obstructions, to repair washouts in old trails, to leave each trail better than he had found it. Tread lightly on the paths, he had told me. Others will come when you have gone. That was how I would remember my father. There was never a place he walked that was not the better for his having passed. For every tree he cut down he planted two.

From Elisha Comes to Red Horse : I leave their politics and religion be. Folks can think the way they want, act the way they please, even to acting the fool. All I ask is they don't make too much noise and don't interfere with other people.

We Sackett boys never killed anything we didn't need to eat unless it was coming at us. A mountain man tries to live with the country instead of against it.

But in the West few men would risk bothering a woman. It was the one thing the frontier would not accept - Kilkenny

Ma'am,' I said, 'I'd have liked it, having you for a ma.

Any time a man comes along and says 'Indians' or 'Mexicans' or 'Englishmen' he's bound to be wrong. Each man is a person unto himself, and you'll find good, bad, and indifferent wherever you go.

I would not have the old ways die, for all people in their own way find a path to wisdom. Each way can be a good way. Each has something to offer the world.

From Elisha Comes to Red Horse : Now I can't claim to be what you'd call a religious man, yet I've a respect for religion, and when a man lives out his life under the sun and the stars, half the time riding alone over mountains and desert, then he usually has a religion although it may not be the usual variety.

At another time she had said, "Do not be afraid. A little fear can make one cautious. Too much fear can rob you of initiative. Respect fear, but use it for an incentive, do not let it bind you or tie you down.

This is our bed. Keep it clean.

Dealing with Indians I found them of shrewd intelligence, quick to detect the false, quick to appreciate quality, quick to resent contempt and to appreciate bravery. So much of the Indian's life was predicated upon courage that he respected it above all else. He needed courage in the hunt, and in warfare, and to achieve success within the

Dealing with Indians I found them of shrewd intelligence, quick to detect the false, quick to appreciate quality, quick to resent contempt and to appreciate bravery. So much of the Indian's life was predicated upon courage that he respected it above all else. He needed courage in the hunt, and in warfare, and to achieve success within the tribe he needed both courage and wit.

That was how I would remember my father. There was never a place he walked that was not the better for his having passed. For every tree he cut down he planted two.

woman who takes cards in a man's game holds the status of a man and is entitled to no more respect.

A lady should be allowed to choose her comp'ny, an' should be treated like a lady until she shows she prefers different.

He'd better be one who keeps his eyes from the others or she'll have him over her knee.

There are men who prefer to keep trouble from a woman, but it seems to me that is neither reasonable nor wise. I've always respected the thinking of women, and also their ability to face up to trouble when it comes, and it shouldn't be allowed to come on them unexpected. Many a man has sheltered his wife from his troubles, until suddenly he dies and she awakens to poverty as well as grief. So

I despise no learning, Sakim.

Yet, might it not be that he secretly loved him? That all this was a mask, a thing to shield him from such an emotion? For few of the Indians we had met thus far regarded the father with veneration, for the maternal uncle was he who drew the respect we gave to a father.

No one ever says 'No' to Charles Walker!

You will earn the respect of the others by doing your job without grumbling. No it's-not-fair's. No I-don't-belong-here's. But don't go overboard the other way, either. You don't want to wake up every morning singing "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah.

My name is Mr. Sir," he said. "Whenever you speak to me you must call me by my name, is that clear?

And the next time I tell you to do something, I expect you to do it without questioning my authority. If it's too much trouble for you to fill a canteen, I'll give you a shovel. You can dig the hole, and the Caveman can fill your canteen.

I'm satisfied," said the man with the bald head. "Okay, Jennifer," said the first man, "you may go now." Jenny got out of her seat. "Jenny," the bald man called. Jenny turned slowly around. "Yes?" she whispered. "Next time, don't come to school on a Saturday.