Quotes about Respect

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

Our rewards in life will always be in exact proportion to the amount of consideration we show toward others.

The depth of a person's character is not measured by his or her physical strength, but by the depth of his or her nobility.

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

It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women - but he can think of them as he ought - as sisters, not as sparring partners.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you - stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame.

We teach others how to treat us.

We have to pay attention to developing well, in the correct manner, the human aspects also in the professions, in respect of other persons, in being concerned for others, which is the best way of being concerned for ourselves.

I say this everywhere I go: I admire and respect Hillary. She has been a lawyer, a law professor, First Lady of Arkansas, First Lady of the United States, a U.S. Senator, Secretary of State.

Honoring everyone contains the promise of possibility.

Good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handled with gloves. Now, human respect—you don't call a man a coward or a liar lightly, but if you spend your life sparing people's feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can't distinguish what should be respected in them.