Quotes about Respect

Further, we often make the mistake of treating listening as merely waiting for our turn to talk. While other team members are making their points, we're preparing our rebuttal. It takes practice and discipline to withhold the urge to jump in with our opinion and really concentrate on what the other person is saying.

So many people there are so concerned about being socially conscious and environmentally aware, but they don't give a second thought to how they treat the guy washing their car or cutting their grass.

C. S. Lewis once said, "A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you.

Children begin to lose respect for the parent who is content with a "do what I say and not as I do" relationship to children.

Let all the earth fear the Lord; let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him! PSALM 33:8

Sexist leaders who do not respect the God-given gifts of women and who may even relate to them inappropriately have forsaken their ambassadorial calling.

When I gossip, I confess the sin of another person to someone who is not involved. Gossip doesn't restrain sin; it encourages it. It doesn't build someone's character; it destroys his reputation.

Your children must learn early that they have been born into a world of authority, and they're not it.

The first duty of love is to listen.

Many people today are too bold to speak against men and women who are anointed of God.

A relationship based on trust means not walking on eggshells, but talking openly, honestly, with no hint of passive-aggressiveness or any of the other dysfunctional manipulative tactics we tend to impose on family and friends.

My commitment to follow through on my choice came with a cost. I tried very hard, for years, with complete transparency, to blend together old and new—the particular Christian tradition that birthed me and for which I had deep respect, and the bigger Bible I had come to know, was excited about, and could not deny without deceiving myself and others.