Quotes about Respect
The wolf stands on its hind legs, places its forelegs on the scientist's shoulders, and places its jaws around the scientist's head. This is just the wolf's way of being friendly. If you're an animal who doesn't know how to talk, a very clear signal is communicated: "See my teeth? Feel them? I could hurt you, I really could. But I won't. I like you.
— Carl Sagan
Some people might kill it." "It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness." He continued to carry both twig and larva.
— Carl Sagan
In true love, you attain freedom. When you love, you bring freedom to the person you love. If the opposite is true, it is not true love. You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free. (p.4, Shambhala Publications)
— Thich Nhat Hanh
We should treat our anxiety, our pain, our hatred and passion gently, respect-fully, not resisting it, but living with it, making peace with it, penetrating into its nature by meditation on interdependence.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
I don't like to give advice. I like to give people information because everyone's life is different, and everyone's journey is different.
— Dolly Parton
I think it's impossible to judge whether another person should come out. You just hope they will on their own time and their own terms.
— Billie Jean King
Listen with grace, with no judgment, without imposing the law.
— Joseph Prince
Manners make the world work. They're not only based on kindness but also efficiency. When people know what to do, the world is smoother. When no one knows what to do, it's chaos.
— Letitia Baldrige
I kiss, but I don't tell.
— Miranda Hart
It's hard not to respect Kobe Bryant's game: He's one of the all-time greats.
— Mark Lanegan
To love someone means to see him as God intended him.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognize the truth, either in himself or anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and others. When he had no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and, in order to divert himself, having no love in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest forms of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal. And it all comes from lying - to others and to yourself.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky