Quotes About Respect

You do not owe anyone your time. When you realize that, others will respect your time much more.

If a person kills a tree before its time, it is like having murdered a soul.-Rabbi Nachman

I don't appreciate the disrespect, because I've been playing hurt for a guy who won't respect you. I don't deserve it...It's time for me to move on.

I do think that, at one time, being an actress was the equivalent almost of being a prostitute. It garnered roughly the same respect. That's changed a lot, thank goodness.

Time is our most finite commodity, therefore our most valuable, and I respect other peoples' time.

I think I don't invest so much time in thinking about people's sexuality. I just take people as individuals.

We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents.

A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.

Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.

Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

Never be haughty to the humble, never be humble to the haughty.

All I care to know about a man is that he is a human being... he can't be any worse.

There are some few people I respect and admire, but I don't think much of the species.

I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect.

I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.

I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion.

A sincere compliment is always grateful to a lady, so long as you don't try to knock her down with it.

If your mother tells you to do a thing, it is wrong to reply that you won't. It is better and more becoming to intimate that you will do as she bids you, and then afterward act quietly in the matter according to the dictates of your best judgment.

Except for my daughters, I have not grieved for any death as I have grieved for his . His was a great and beautiful spirit, he was a man – all man, from his crown to his footsoles. My reverence for him was deep and genuine.

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also. I would not interfere with any one's religion, either to strengthen it or to weaken it. I am not able to believe one's religion can affect his hereafter one way or the other, no matter what that religion may be. But it may easily be a great comfort to him in this life--hence it is a valuable possession to him.

It's considered good sportsmanship not to pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

I have no color prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can't be any worse..

Do not bring your dog. (advice for attending a funeral)