Quotes about Respect

You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd.  You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation.  It is that permanent contradiction between your ideas and desires and all the dead formalities and vain pretenses of your civilization which makes you sad, troubled and unbalanced.  In that intolerable conflict you lose all joy of life and all feeling of personality, because at every moment they suppress and restrain and check the free play of your powers.  That's the poisoned and mortal wound of the civilized world. 

Faith is harder to shake than knowledge, love succumbs less to change than respect, hate is more enduring than aversion, and the impetus to the mightiest upheavals on this earth has at all times consisted less in a scientific knowledge dominating the masses than in a fanaticism which inspired them and sometimes in a hysteria which drove them forward.

Of course you will insist on modesty in the children, and respect to their teachers, but if the boy stops you in your speech, cries out that you are wrong and sets you right, hug him!

Respect the child.  Wait and see the new product of Nature.  Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions.  Respect the child.  Be not too much his parent.  Trespass not on his solitude.

The spirit of Buddhism is, more than anything, about valuing harmony and unity, in which others are respected and embraced rather than denounced. This has been the way of Buddhism since the beginning, and this is true Buddhism.

We all start small. We pray and pick up what mitzvot we can practice. We respect each other and do right by others. We strive to learn what G-d wants from us through Torah study - and suddenly we are all part of the foundation on which the world is built.

Whoever acts with respect will get respect.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. 

While respect is natural, disrespect is also learned.

 Your true spiritual nature is to trust. Your true spiritual nature is to respect. Your true spiritual nature is to love unconditionally.

     It is always good to respect others. When disagreements arise, the best policy is to agree to disagree.

In my lifetime I have learnt that one race is not superior to another.
In my lifetime I have learnt that one sex is not superior to another.
I await the day when one religion is not considered superior  to another.

The trees and plants show respect for each other by the way they live in harmony.  This also applies to the animal kingdom.

Just as gold is burnt, cut and rubbed,
Examine my words carefully and
Do not accept them simply out of respect

Let us respect the unique character and the personal world of each and every human being

 You can tell a person, not by what they say they are gratitude for, but how they respect what they claim to be grateful for."
Original quote contributed by Veronica Davina from her Mom, Mrs. Donna Priscott

He loved the earth and all things of the earth.. He knew that man's heart away from nature becomes hard, he knew the lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to the lack of respect for humans too.

Wise guidance never violates people's Free Will. A superior who demands obedience of his subordinates should show respect for their capacity to understand, and also for their Innate Right to their own Free Will.

Have faith in humankind
a respect for what is earthly
and an unfaltering belief
in peace and understanding

The tragedy is that so many people look for self-confidence and respect everywhere except within themselves, so they fail in their search.

Ones inescapable desire to accept another's differences as...

          Distinction

The fearless comfort in all that I do not know as...
          Trust

The admiration of one's life journey as...

          Respect

You excite me to transparency through...

          The beauty of truth

You humble me to wisdom through...
          The fortitude of understanding

Loving who you are in this moment through...

          The exoneration of your past

This is no coincidence...
           This familiarity defines true friendship...timeless...a decade later.

-- Kandra J Gardner

Spiritual people can sense the presence of other spiritual people and a truly spiritual person respects the faith of others (as opposed to trying to convert them) because a truly spiritual person realizes that we are all on separate journeys through our life experience. No matter what our faith we take this journey as individuals.

the bassis at which I genuinely live my life.

Surround yourself with people who respect and treat you well.

I maintain that the biggest challenge in the new millennium could be a change of habit. We could change from a dominating commodity culture into one of true exchange in which we learn from each other in humility and respect. I do think it's possible. But it's up to us.

What is your personal definition of “good”?
A world in which everyone is universally empathetic and exercises love and respect with full change-making power.

It is my hope someday to see science and decision makers rediscover what the ancients have always known, namely that our highest currency is respect.

“Tolerance implies a respect for another person, not because he is wrong or even because he is right, but because he is human.”

All the races and tribes in the world are like the different colored flowers of one meadow. All are beautiful. As children of the Creator they must all be respected.

Be tolerant.  Behold the unity of all faiths, cults, creeds and religions.
Respect the views, opinions and sentiments of all.