Quotes about Respect

The boy answers, Don't ask unless you are willing to be hurt. Indra says, I ask. Teach. (That, by the way, is a good Oriental idea: you don't teach until you are asked. You don't force your mission down people's throats.)

You can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right; but spelling isn't everything. There are days when spelling Tuesday simply doesn't count.

He respects owl, because you can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right.

If a statement is untrue, it is not the more respectable because it has been said in Latin.

A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one's own tradition with reverence for different traditions.

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

The President last night had a dream. He was in a party of plain people and as it became known who he was they began to comment on his appearance. One of them said, "He is a common-looking man." The President replied, "Common-looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them."

Men need to learn how to deal with women with strength and patience - this is love.

It is deplorable that homosexual persons have been and are the object of violent malice in speech or in action. Such treatment deserves condemnation from the church's pastors wherever it occurs... The intrinsic dignity of each person must always be respected in work, in action and in law.

He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.

Never find your delight in another's misfortune.