Quotes About Respect

Respect a man, and he will do all the more.

The best thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

Discipline yourself and others won't need to.

Listen if you want to be heard

Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.

There's a whole lot of people don't seem to understand that you have to talk to a man in his own language before he'll take you seriously.

Because Christopher doesn't need to be living with a woman who thinks she knows everything. Nobody knows everything—they shouldn't think they do.

Emmy and I are still Habte Sadek's favorite foreigners, and it is all because I wanted to look at his feet when I was eleven years old! But it never hurts to be polite to people.

There is no right way to knit; there is no wrong way to knit. So if anybody kindly tells you that what you are doing is "wrong," don't take umbrage; they mean well. Smile submissively, and listen, keeping your disagreement on an entirely mental level. They may be right, in this particular case, and even if not, they may drop off pieces of information which will come in very handy if you file them away carefully in your brain for future reference.

The bride who wants to do her full job will plan from the start to create the kind of home her husband wants, and to do it with no more assistance than he willingly offers. —"Making Marriage Work," Ladies' Home Journal, June 1950

Men who love their mothers treat women wonderfully. And they have enormous respect for women.

He's quiet long enough that I'm about to prod, when he speaks in that way of his that I'm sure he thinks is gentle but is patronizing as hell. Is that what Trinity hears when I address her concerns? Shit. I'll need to be more careful. There's a fine line between "gentle" and "patronizing," and I might be straying as far over it as Oscar is.

Most comedy is based on getting a laugh at somebody else's expense. And I find that that's just a form of bullying in a major way. So I want to be an example that you can be funny and be kind, and make people laugh without hurting somebody else's feelings.

Leaning forward in your chair when someone is trying to squeeze behind you isn't enough. You also have to move the chair.

I prefer to believe that people are good and honest and respect me enough to tell me the truth. It's not easy to find those people all the time, but they're out there.

Be kind to one another. Bye, bye.

Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.

Asking who's "the man" and who's "the woman" in a same-sex relationship is like asking which chopstick is the fork.

I stand for honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated, and helping those in need. To me those are traditional values." -- Ellen Degeneres

We're all different people and we're allowed to be different from one another. If someone ever says you're weird, say thank you. And then curtsy. No, don't curtsy. That might be too weird. Bow. And tip your imaginary hat. That'll show them.

At a four-way stop sign, the person with the prettiest eyes has the right of way

Slow down your mind. Slower. Think about how slow you have to drive when there's someone on a bicycle in front of you in the middle of your lane. Are you annoyed? Don't be.

Friends and colleagues meet halfway. Men (real men) pick up women at their apartments or offices for dates.

We accept that some people don't want us and we go on to the next. We don't force people to love us.