Quotes about Respect

If your mother tells you to do a thing, it is wrong to reply that you won't. It is better and more becoming to intimate that you will do as she bids you, and then afterward act quietly in the matter according to the dictates of your best judgment.

Except for my daughters, I have not grieved for any death as I have grieved for his . His was a great and beautiful spirit, he was a man — all man, from his crown to his footsoles. My reverence for him was deep and genuine.

It's considered good sportsmanship not to pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

Spare the rod and spile the child, as the Good Book says.

Virtue never has been as respectable as money.

A kindly courtesy does at least save one's feelings, even if it is not professing to stand for a welcome.

I said it was a brutal thing. No, it was a human thing. You should not insult the brutes by such a misuse of that word; they have not deserved it.

By what right has the dog come to be regarded as a noble animal? The more brutal and cruel and unjust you are to him the more your fawning and adoring slave he becomes; whereas, if you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward--you will never get her full confidence again.

I admire him, I frankly confess it; and when his time comes I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake.

No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law

Don't allow anybody to make you feel that you're nobody.