Quotes about Respect
A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present?
— Confucius
We should keep the dead before our eyes, and honor them as though still living
— Confucius
Tsze-Kung asked, "Is there one word with which to act in accordance throughout a lifetime?" The Master said, "Is not reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
— Confucius
A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present? If he reach the age of forty or fifty, and has not made himself heard of, then indeed he will not be worth being regarded with respect.
— Confucius
Not to talk with people although they can be talked with is to waste people. To talk with people although they can't be talked with is to waste words. A man of understanding does not waste people, but he also does not waste words.
— Confucius
When you make a promise consistent with what is right, you can keep your word. When you show respect consistent with good taste, you keep shame and disgrace at a distance. When he in whom you confide is one who does not fail his friends, you may trust him fully.
— Confucius
What you dont want done to yourself, do not do to others.
— Confucius
What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
— Confucius
The Master said, "If a man of position [junzi] does not have integrity, he will not inspire awe.
— Confucius
The Jitong chapter of the Book of Rites says, "There are three ways of caring for one's parents: when they are alive, look after them; when they are deceased, tend to the death rites; when the death rites have been completed, offer them sacrifice.
— Confucius
Man who fart in church, sit in pew.
— Confucius
It starts when you begin to overlook good manners. Any time you quit hearing Sir and Mam the end is pretty much in sight...
— Cormac McCarthy