Quotes about Respect

Listen to what Peter is saying: men, you may be stronger than your wives, but you had better honor them as fellow heirs, or God won't hear your prayers! Did you get that? God won't listen to your prayers if you don't treat your wife with honor. Women are to be treated with respect and honor, as people who are inheriting the throne along with men.

after all, hospitality was a virtue, one of the highest in Mamma's esteem.

Their combined efforts mean kingdom work is multiplied. Far from being shamed in the city gates, her husband is regarded with greater esteem because he has such a wife. And he is first to sing her praises.

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because some day in life you will have been all of these.

MOTHER TO TEENAGER ON SUNDAY MORNING: I believe I heard the clock strike one when you came in last night. teen: Well, I know how much you need your sleep, so it was going to strike ten but I stopped it at one chime.

Obedience alone gives the right to command.

Some people might say that I think too highly of you just because I worship the water you walk on.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

A true gentlemen is one who is never unintentionally rude.

A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.

Don't be curious of matters that don't concern you; never speak of them, and don't ask about them.