Quotes about Respect
Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Practice radical humility. He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated...
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sincerity is the highest complement you can pay
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every[one] I meet is in some way my superior.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it today because it is not of today.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Treat all people as if they are real, because who knows, perhaps they are.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The fear of God is a profound respect for His holiness, which includes a fear of the consequences of disobeying Him.
- Randy Alcorn
Sacrilege is often defined as taking something that belongs to God and using it profanely. But there is a bigger sacrilege we commit all the time. That is to take something and give it to God when it means absolutely nothing to us.
- Ravi Zacharias
sexuality is sacred, and using it for amusement brings diminishing returns.
- Ravi Zacharias
Young dreams may be wild ones, but they are never corrected by ridiculing them. They must be steered by a loving voice that has earned the right to be heard, not one enforced by means of power. This is a very difficult lesson for parents to learn. And as cultures lose their restraining power, there will be greater need for mutual love and respect between parents and children if a relationship of trust is to be built, rather than banking on authority because of position.
- Ravi Zacharias
The reality is that if religion is to be treated with intellectual respect, then it must stand the test of truth, regardless of the mood of the day.
- Ravi Zacharias
Without the undergirding of love, the possessor of any conviction becomes obnoxious, and the dogma believed becomes repulsive to the one who disagrees with it.
- Ravi Zacharias