Quotes about Respect

Marry the man who's going to walk with you through the next fifty or sixty years. Open doors, hold your hand, make your coffee, rub lotion on the cracks of your feet, put you up on a pedestal where you belong. Is he marrying your face and your bottle-blond hair, or will he love you when you look like whoever you're going to look like in fifty years?

I have never lost respect for any individual who replied to a question with the answer, I just don't know.

Value clients enough to make them the central focus. Never make your clients feel like there is anyone on the planet more important than them. They are your priority. Every. Time.

No one should be harassed or mistreated because of who they are, who they love, or what they believe.

You don't have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.

It was lovely. Not to be stared at, not seen, but being pulled into view by the interested, uncritical eyes of the other.

A good man is a good thing, but there is nothing in the world better than a good woman. She can be your mother, your wife, your girlfriend, your sister, or somebody you work next to. Don't matter. You find one, stay there. You see a scary one, make tracks.

You know, the kind who know Jesus by His first name, but out of politeness never use it even to His face.

That whites not only had no patent on Christianity; they were often its obstacle. That Jesus had been freed from white religion, and he wanted these kids to know that they did not have to beg for respect; it was already in them, and they needed only to display it.

Carefully they replaced the soil and covered the entire grave with uprooted grass. Neither one had spoken a word.

If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have serious problem.

To fear God simply means to take God seriously, as opposed to taking God casually.