Quotes about Respect
Walk in love and you will appreciate people for who they are.
— Mensah Oteh
Don't stop to ask whether the animal or plant you meet deserves your sympathy, or how much it feels, or even whether it can feel at all: respect it and consider all life sacred.
— Albert Schweitzer
The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold.
— Oswald Chambers
The secret in education lies in respecting the student.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.
— Samuel Johnson
Nothing is more unbecoming to a teacher of the Word than flippancy. He must be serious and should not act like a clown.
— Martin Luther
They taught us always to respect other peoples: every man is made in the image of God, even if he has a tendency to forget it.
— Amos Oz
Being conformist and respectful as I was of the grown-up world and its prevailing values, and having no brothers or sisters or friends to counterbalance the personality cult that surrounded me, I had no alternative but to concur, humbly but thoroughly, with the grown-ups' opinion of me.
— Amos Oz
The humble man seeks at all times to act according to the rule: with honour preferring one another; by charity serve one another; esteem[ing] others better than themselves; submitting yourselves one to another.
— Andrew Murray
In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
— Samuel Johnson
The art of communicating instruction, of whatever kind, is much to be valued; and I have ever thought that those who devote themselves to this employment, and do their duty with diligence and success, are entitled to very high respect from the community, as Johnson himself often maintained. Yet I am of opinion that the greatest abilities are not only not required for this office, but render a man less fit for it.
— Samuel Johnson
Through Malachi, God chastises them for "thinking that the Lord's table may be despised" (Malachi 1:7). That's strong language, but it rings true. A man who insists that he loves his wife while he lavishes the finest gifts upon his mistress does not truly love his wife.
— Scott Hahn