Quotes About Respect

Don't stop to ask whether the animal or plant you meet deserves your sympathy, or how much it feels, or even whether it can feel at all: respect it and consider all life sacred.

Treat people like people. Beware of pity and patronization because in them, you can't see when you're unashamedly looking down on someone.

The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold.

Don't cry for the dead, for the dead is deaf, dumb, blind, lame, unemotional and dead.

There's nothing more debilitating about a disability than the way people treat you over it.

When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.

You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.

Many teachers think of children as immature adults. It might lead to better and more 'respectful' teaching, if we thought of adults as atrophied children.

Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honour than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the former ensure a good life.

There's only 5 real jobs in the world. Teacher, fireman, policeman, doctor and somebody who is in the armed service. If you don't have one of those 5 jobs, you shouldn't take your life that serious.

The secret in education lies in respecting the student.

Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that.

No person is so grand or wise or perfect as to be the master of another person. Teacher, perhaps. Setter of good example, perhaps. Genius, perhaps. But master, no.

You can't teach a hunter it's wrong to kill.

Don't set your wit against a child.

You don't have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.

Protect your hands! Some fans demonstrate their enthusiam with bone-crushing hand shakes. My former teacher Julian Bream often bows Japanese style with his hands behind his back. Smart man!.

A nation will prosper to the degree that it honors it's teachers.

He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.

A true disciple shows his appreciation by reaching further than his teacher.

I don't care who the student is, teachers should never be condescending. That should be the first rule in the teacher handbook.

The one who does not honor the teacher and the one who does not honor the task, although ever so knowledgeable, they are confused.