Quotes about Respect

They'll nail anyone who ever scratched his ass during the national anthem.

You're a good man, sister

Straightforwardness, without the rules of propriety, becomes rudeness.

Respect yourself and others will respect you.

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.

All through the short afternoon they kept coming, the people who counted themselves Father's friends. Young and old, poor and rich, scholarly gentlemen and illiterate servant girls—only to Father did it seem that they were all alike. That was Father's secret: not that he overlooked the differences in people; that he didn't know they were there.

He hung naked on the cross. I had not known—I had not thought. . . . The paintings, the carved crucifixes showed at the least a scrap of cloth. But this, I suddenly knew, was the respect and reverence of the artist. But oh—at the time itself, on that other Friday morning—there had been no reverence. No more than I saw in the faces around us now.

Ironically, we often fail to see that whenever we compromise ourselves to please others, we tend to lose their respect.

Through years of maturing, I've learned that it's not our job to force our beliefs down others' throats until they echo back what we want to hear. No, our job is to challenge their categories by doing the same things Jesus did: loving them, challenging them, accepting them, and forgiving them.

If we don't fear God, it's because we don't know God.

Make sure that the person you're in the room with is the most important person in the world when you're together.

When it's clear that we have a commitment to God that comes before anything else in our lives, most people will respect us even if they don't share our faith.