Quotes About Respect

The superior thing, in this as in other departments of life, was to be late. Lateness showed that serene contempt for the illusion we call time which is so necessary to ensure the respect of others and oneself. Only the servile are punctual...

When your family is twice as weird as normal, you have to be twice as polite to authority, because authority hates weird.

Does one refuse to ride with an Emperor?' 'If one is wise, one does not.

And Arthur, beginning to remember and trying not to, and suddenly more afraid than ever he had been in his life before, cried out "Father-Kay- why do you kneel to me? Get up! Oh sir, get up! I cannot bear that you should kneel to me, you who have been my father all these years." And when Sir Ector would not, he dropped on to his knees also, to be on a level with the old man again.

Kids who are accustomed to having their concerns dismissed tend to be far less receptive to hearing the concerns of their caregivers. Over time, such kids also become far less receptive to talking to their parents.

He spoke gently, laughed often, and never exercised his wit at the expense of others.

If you are late, you are wasting precious moments of another person's life. Moments they can never get back!

In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.

we need to remind ourselves that natural systems are much more finely tuned than we think, and if we like the way they currently work, then we should try very, very hard to not screw with them.

People don't necessarily want or need to be done unto as you would have them do unto you. They want to be done unto as they want to be done unto

A woman is entitled to respect until and unless she does something to lose it. A man is not entitled to respect until and unless he does something to gain it…The man must repeatedly achieve: obtain, surpass, conquer….Insecurity is part of being a man, an essential part of the male role in society. Manhood is never secure: It must be claimed via public actions, risky things seen and validated by other people–and it can be lost.

Si no te rindes, pase lo que pase, puedes ganarte la dosis necesaria de respetuoso desprecio.

Tolerância universal é indiferença. Quem tolera tudo, é porque não se importa com nada'.

Ler rapidamente aquilo que o autor levou anos para pensar é um desrespeito. [...] Há frases que resumem uma vida. Por isso é preciso ler vagarosamente, prestando atenção nas idéias que se escondem nos silêncios que há entre as palavras.

O ato de ouvir exige humildade de quem ouve. E a humildade está nisso: saber, não com a cabeça, mas com o coração, que é possível que o outro veja mundos que nós não vemos.

People don't have to like or support you, so you always have to say thank you.

Todos Somos Unos Hijos De La Verga

Though I've belted you an' flayed you,By the livin' Gawd that made you,You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din!

They rise to their feet as He passes by, gentlemen unafraid.

Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears.

So 'ere's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, at your 'ome in the Soudan;You're a pore benighted 'eathen but a first-class fightin' man.

Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat;But there is neither East nor West, border, nor breed, nor birth,When two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the earth!

Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.

Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.