Quotes about Respect
The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.
— George Washington
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because some day in life you will have been all of these.
— George Washington Carver
MOTHER TO TEENAGER ON SUNDAY MORNING: I believe I heard the clock strike one when you came in last night. teen: Well, I know how much you need your sleep, so it was going to strike ten but I stopped it at one chime.
— Anonymous
Obedience alone gives the right to command.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some people might say that I think too highly of you just because I worship the water you walk on.
— Anonymous
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
— Mark Twain
A true gentlemen is one who is never unintentionally rude.
— Oscar Wilde
Don't be curious of matters that don't concern you; never speak of them, and don't ask about them.
— Teresa of Avila
There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.
— Margaret Mead
Most men admire Virtue, who follow not her lore.
— John Milton
They do us honor by seeing gods in us, and we respond by treating them like things.
— JM Coetzee
My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and asked for forgiveness.
— Jack Kerouac