Quotes about Respect

To deal only with the superficial trivia without seeing deeper, more tender issues is to trample on the sacred ground of another's heart.

I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a transformer in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader.

The ability to listen first requires restraint, respect, and reverence. And the ability to make yourself understood requires courage and consideration. On the continuum, you go from fight and flight instincts to mature two-way communication where courage is balanced with consideration.

But in the long run, people will trust and respect you if you are honest and open and kind with them. You care enough to confront. And to be trusted, it is said, is greater than to be loved. In the long run, I am convinced, to be trusted will be also to be loved.

There may be times when you just have to love people from a distance.

Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.

In our families we learn to love and to recognise the dignity of all, especially of the elderly

What we call love is in its essence reverence for life.

If you think well of others, you will also speak well of others and to others. From the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. If your heart is full of love, you will speak of love.

Bad evangelism says: I'm right, you're wrong, and I would love to tell you about it

The more we learn to love and respect ourselves, the more we will become attracted to people who will love and respect us and who we can safely love and respect.

Dare to contend without being contentious. Preserve the truth without hurting people. Love and be charitable.