Quotes About Respect

It is equally important to listen as it is to speak.

I cannot wed a man who would have me be less than I am. Not Rotherrod, nor any man who needs me to be less so that he can be more.

Young men do not respect girls they can take advantage of - and they do not as easily take advantage of girls they respect.

A guy who treats his mom well, treats his wife well.

I ask no favors for my sex.... All I ask of our brethren is that they will take their feet from off our necks.

You drive well for a woman." "That is so patronising. If I'd known you were going to say something like that I would have wrapped your precious Ferrari round a lamppost.

Quiet doesn't mean you don't have important things to say. Just that you might take your time saying them.

She was the sort of woman men wanted to help. Not the sort they wanted to help themselves to…

In our house DNA means Do Not Argue.

As women, we often feel we have to put our needs at the bottom of the pile. But why are we less important than others?

It is in human nature to respect power; but all his manliness was at stake, and his natural rights would be degraded and lost, if he could not show his power to be greater than her own.

What has made this nation great? Not its heroes but its households.

Lately I did a film called All I Want for Christmas and it was well received. This gave me a new point of view and a new respect for my work as an actress.

Being desired is not the same as being harassed, and we do not have to punish or shun the person who sees what is special about us.

cross-talk, no countering, and no criticism.

Smile sweetly at a waiter as you sit down and chances are you'll be treated with contempt.

I would go down to the kitchen, saying 'How do you do?' to whoever I met there: ...'How are you, Mrs. Cakebread?' (That was the cook: that really was her name, it wasn't a joke and no-one laughed it it.)

Respect your characters, even the ­minor ones. In art, as in life, everyone is the hero of their own particular story; it is worth thinking about what your minor characters' stories are, even though they may intersect only slightly with your protagonist's.

Though I yearn to help, I will not violate your freedom. I stand silently in the background of your mind, waiting for you to remember that I am with you.

I reminded myself I shouldn't knock the wig off her head. My betrothed might be here, and first impressions were important.

Do unto others as you would have done unto you. Manners aren't anything but a polite person being nice, no matter what everyone else is doing. But they make the world a better place, Sugar Honey, you can trust me on that.

Respect for another man's opinion is worthy. It is the realization that any opinion is valuable, for it is the sign of a rational being.

But please eat at the table and use a coaster.

But Neve, you can't start a book and leave it halfway through,' he'd said implacably. 'It's almost as bad as turning down the corner of the page, instead of using a bookmark.