Quotes about Respect

A good many of our higher-bracket businessmen might have been just as rich, just as powerful, but more respected and infinitely happier, if they had taken the slower and longer road of absolute ethical integrity and moral decency.

You teach people how to treat you.

Don't do unto others what you don't want done unto you.

A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present?

We should keep the dead before our eyes, and honor them as though still living

Tsze-Kung asked, "Is there one word with which to act in accordance throughout a lifetime?" The Master said, "Is not reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present? If he reach the age of forty or fifty, and has not made himself heard of, then indeed he will not be worth being regarded with respect.

Not to talk with people although they can be talked with is to waste people. To talk with people although they can't be talked with is to waste words. A man of understanding does not waste people, but he also does not waste words.

When you make a promise consistent with what is right, you can keep your word. When you show respect consistent with good taste, you keep shame and disgrace at a distance. When he in whom you confide is one who does not fail his friends, you may trust him fully.

What you dont want done to yourself, do not do to others.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

The Master said, "If a man of position [junzi] does not have integrity, he will not inspire awe.