Quotes About Respect

If you love someone, you don't act like they annoy you. You like them, and you try and make them think they're the most important person in the world to you.

We resent being talked to. We'd rather be talked with.

We resent being talked to. We'd rather be talked with. So will all of the experts and the terminally self-absorbed please leave the room and close the door behind you? Thanks.

I shared what I feel is the right way to go, the right course of action, and I suspect some of you may see it differently. If you do, I'd like to hear it. I know that my enthusiasm may make it hard to challenge me, but my job is to make the best possible decisions for the organization, not to persuade you of my viewpoint. So please speak up." This is an unusual and highly appealing way to begin a meeting. At

Be pleasant, patient, and professional, please.

I feel profoundly alone, cut off, unattractive…I feel unloveable. But I respect that unloveable solider—struggling to survive, struggling to be honest, just, honourable. I respect myself.

The trouble with us is that we've been too polite with each other.

I can't stand people who jabber on their phones in supermarkets, blocking your access to the butter, then getting all self-important when you interrupt to ask them to move

No, my darling. I'll love the woman you keep hidden inside you. You've led men to battle, but never into your heart. Men respect you, they obey you, but they see you as a warrior. You've never had the chance to blossom.

The days of chefs who threw tantrums, who bullied and underpaid their workers, were numbered.

loved coming here. It always felt so…safe. I was allowed to read any book I wanted. No one interrupted me, or if they did, it was done gently and with respect. I always wished the rest of the world would be run like a library.

My grandmother used to always say, if you can't be on time, be early.

And then the simple truth dawned on her. She finally acknowledged that it didn't matter who you were or where you came from. Love and respect put everyone on equal footing.

No more taking the Lord's name in vain or even in earnest.

I believe that for a lucky few, love can grow from what is truly important in life—honor, respect and recognition. Now, those are matters worth pursuing, wouldn't you say?

Is it disrespectful to the House to love some Statues more than others? I sometimes ask Myself this question. It is my belief that the House itself loves and blesses equally everything that it has created. Should I try to do the same? Yet, at the same time, I can see that it is in the nature of men to prefer one thing to another, to find one thing more meaningful than another.

The man who willeth to do well... we should extol his virtues and speak not of his faults behind his back.

The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself.

[The law] is a jealous mistress, and requires a long and constant courtship. It is not to be won by trifling favors, but by lavish homage.

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him Vandal. When he wantonly destroys one of the works of God we call him Sportsman.

The forms of manners which should be scrupulously observed are, invariably, those which contribute to the comfort, or dignity of others.

Any references to pregnancy or childbirth are coarse, and should be carefully side-stepped by the truly well-bred, as should intrusive comments on love-affairs.

Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive.