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Respect Quotes


"You must love him enough to trust his wishes, even if you disagree with them. You must respect him - no matter how wrong you think he may be, no matter how poor you think his decisions, you must respect his desire to make them. Even if one of them includes loving you."


"I can be hurt, she said, only by people I respect."


"If he pursues women infront of you, you are worth more than him. If you pursue a man, because of tactless spite, he is worth more than you. We're all entitled to live to the truths in our hearts, some won't understand it & that's ok, but it's never & I mean NEVER ok to intentionally go out of your way to make another's journey harder because of the perception they've had on your own."


"If you continue to treat yourself like a 3rd class citizen, you'll stay a 3rd class citizen.You're better than that."


"Do not instigate or treat any of your employees, working at your place, with contempt. Treat everyone with respect. You never know what benefit a person will bring."



"Another consequence of not knowing the value of what you possess in this case the value of life is that, there would be some other people around you that will better understand what you possess."


"When you look down on yourself, you set an example on how others should treat you."


"I cannot compromise my respect for your love. You can keep your love, I will keep my respect."


"Okay, let's put it this way. I would like to sleep with you. But it's alright if I don't sleep with you. What I'm saying is I'd like to be as fair as possible. I don't want to force anything on anybody, any more than I'd want anything forced on me. It's enough that I feel your presence or see your commas swirling around me."


"If you're going to sit on someone's tombstone, you might as well know something about them, right?"


"Don't try to silence other people's genius because you're too deaf to hear your own."


"You can always be better than your master but you can never change the fact that you were his student and he was your master! The seed must always respect for his soil!"



"Be obligated to people only in mutual love."



"To take responsibility is to create respect for the church throughout the earth."


"Ethan gave me an admiring look that wasn't about sex, but about that guy moment when they realize you are not just another pretty face, but maybe, just maybe you can be cute, petite, and one of the guys all at the same time."


"I am 15 and you are 51, I know you are the best, to be loved by, everyone."


"There is so much we'll likely never agree on, but can we at least agree to be respectful and kind to each other anyway."


"It is very wrong to make fun of anyone because you make fun of the Lord residing within. It doesn't matter if it is a donkey, but after all, (finally) who is he? He is God."


"My friends call me by my name.'You don't have any friends.'I don't want you to be my friend, Selia, or my servant, not now. I thought you were both. You have let me know I was wrong. So are you to treat me so. You are wrong."


"A man who goes into a restaurant and blatantly disrespects the servers shows a strong discontent with his own being. Deep down he knows that restaurant service is the closest thing he will ever experience to being served like a king."


"Never judge a woman by her age."



"To be dignified and distinguished give honor and dignity to others."


"In America, when a man walks in front of a woman it may imply that they are not equals and he is exerting dominance over her, or being arrogant and rude. In a different culture, however, it may be presumed that he is someone worthy of profound respect and is protecting her by going first."


"When people turn other people into selfobjects, they are trying to turn a person into a kind of spare part."


"The least we each ought to do for someone who treats us like a king or a queen is to treat them like a prince or a princess."


"I didn't have the vaguest idea of what to do " I couldn't keep staring at the wall forever, I told myself. But even that admonition didn't work. A faculty advisor reviewing a graduation thesis would have had the perfect comment: you write well, you argue clearly, but you don't have anything to say."


"Disagreeing with someone does not mean that they have to be enemies or opponents."


"It is certainly impossible to lose respect if you lose out of some stupid discussions."


"The essential respect is the one in your own heart for yourself."


"Treat people like people. Beware of pity and patronization because in them, you can't see when you're unashamedly looking down on someone."
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