Quotes & Sayings About Respecting Others

Assertiveness is critical for feeling empowered in your own mind as well as at work and at home. It's saying honestly to yourself and others, "This is who I am. This is how I want to be treated," while respecting other people's rights and opinions. Assertiveness isn't about being liked all the time, nor about making sure everyone is happy. It is about standing up for your right to be treated fairly. There are many advantages to assertiveness. First, — Judy Murphy

Respect begins with this attitude: "I acknowledge that you are a creature of extreme worth. God has endowed you with certain abilities and emotions. Therefore I respect you as a person. I will not desecrate your worth by making critical remarks about your intellect, your judgment or your logic. I will seek to understand you and grant you the freedom to think differently from the way I think and to experience emotions that I may not experience." Respect means that you give the other person the freedom to be an individual. — Gary Chapman

Maturity is developed by respecting others and accepting responsibility for violating that respect. — Wes Fesler

Love is a two-way street, but not everyone deserves a license. — Carlos Wallace

If you treat your subject with seriousness and respect, other people tend to treat it the same way. — Vanessa Friedman

Speak graciously to young men as you would to your brothers. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Give a child the habit of sacredly regarding the truth
of carefully respecting the property of others
of scrupulously abstaining from all acts of improvidence which can involve him in distress, and he will just as likely think of rushing into the element in which he cannot breathe, as of lying or cheating or stealing. — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham And Vaux

People use words to do battle and to hurt one another terribly, tragically and even mortally. — Bryant McGill

We nurture our own being by respecting all people and consciously working to mitigate the pain of the world. — Kilroy J. Oldster

It doesn't kill you to be nice, kind, loving, caring and respectful. Try it! — Lily Amis

Don't despise people because of their defects or because of their lack of talents and gifts. Imagine if people did it for you, how many friends would you be left with? — Bangambiki Habyarimana

After a war, the silencing of arms is not enough. Peace means respecting all rights. You can't respect one of them and violate the others. When a society doesn't respect the rights of its citizens, it undermines peace and leads it back to war. — Maria Julia Hernandez

I respect a woman who can respect me when I'm not around. — Mark W. Boyer

Safe gender is being who and what we want to be when we
want to be that, with no threat of censure or violence.
Safe gender is going as far in any direction as we wish,
With no threat to our health, or anyone else's.
Safe gender is not being pressured into passing, not
Having to lie, not having to hide.
Sane gender is asking questions about gender - talking
To people who do gender, and opening up about our
Gender histories and our gender desires.
Sane gender is probably very, very funny.
Consensual gender is respecting each others' definition
Of gender, and respecting the wishes of some to be alone,
And respecting the intentions of others to be inclusive in
Their own time.
Consensual gender is non-violent in that it doesn't force
Its way in on anyone.
Consensual gender opens its arms and welcomes all
People as gender outcasts - whoever is willing to admit it. — Kate Bornstein

Regardless of what you've been through we all process energy differently. — Turcois Ominek

If he or she doesn't see or respect your present value nor your future dream the moment you connected there is little or no chance that he or she will do in future. — Bernard Kelvin Clive

As I've been telling your, son, you get nowhere looking at clothes and the color of the skin to judge a man. It won't tell you nothing about what's inside. That's where a fellow's mettle is, and that's what counts. — Richard Puz

Give yourself permission to change your world and others around you, in a positive way, with love and respect. — Tasha Hoggatt

A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others. — Jena Malone

The only true disability is the inability to accept and respect differences. — Tanya Masse

Since many of you do not belong to the Catholic Church and others are non-believers, from the bottom of my heart I give this silent blessing to each and every one of you, respecting the conscience of each one of you but knowing that each one of you is a child of God. — Pope Francis

Let us cultivate love and compassion, both of which give life true meaning. This is the religion I preach. It is simple. Its temple is the heart. Its teaching is love and compassion. Its moral values are loving and respecting others, whoever they may be. Whether one is a lay person or a monastic, we have no other option if we wish to survive in this world. — Dalai Lama

People can only live fully by helping others to live. When you give life to friends you truly live. Cultures can only realize their further richness by honoring other traditions. And only by respecting natural life can humanity continue to exist. — Daisaku Ikeda

Respecting the opinions and beliefs of another, even if they differ from yours, is a genuine sign of love. — Charles F. Glassman

The ultimate truth is that we are individuals who can choose to respect ourselves, and others, with or without regard to bloodline, wealth, tribe, or community. — Omar Saif Ghobash

My true religion, my faith in God. He gives me love and compassion. I simply return them by loving and being compassionate towards others. Our own heart, our own mind, is the temple of God. The teachings of God is to love one another as he loves us. We love by respecting and being compassionate, whatever they decide to do with their life — Ann Marie Aguilar

Help others while respecting the Sacred Law of Free Will. By recognizing and honoring God in others, you recognize and honor God within yourself. — Human Angels

Individuals set boundaries to feel safe, respected, and heard. — Pamela Cummins

A good motivation is what is needed: compassion without dogmatism, without complicated philosophy; just understanding that others are human brothers and sisters and respecting their human rights and dignities. That we humans can help each other is one of our unique human capacities. — Dalai Lama

All anyone really wants is to feel appreciated. So if you want to create real, long-lasting relationships, do that. — Charles F. Glassman

Give and take.
Oil and water.
Yes, it is that simple! — Melody Carstairs

Self-respect governs morality: respect for others governs our behavior. — Joseph Alexandre Pierre De Segur, Viscount Of Segur

The right to be respected is won by respecting others. — Vasyl Sukhomlynsky

Love is a prayer, begin it with self. If you can worship yourself without shame or guilt, you will be able to respect others. — Vishwas Chavan

On love, not harming others, and respecting all beings. Even animals have these elements in their behavioral patterns. We should start by observing how animals act. They are honest and appreciate it when we are honest with them. If you present something nice to an animal in one hand while hiding a rope in the other, the creature will know your intention. Yet animals have no religion, no constitution. Basic nature has endowed them with the faculty of discernment. It is the same for humans. — Dalai Lama

The most common lie you will ever tell God is your opportunity to do the right thing was taken from you. — Shannon L. Alder

Whether or not we are religious, respecting others should be seen as just as important as looking out for ourselves, yet it requires discipline to change our bad habits that cause pain to animals. — Ingrid Newkirk

When you stop comparing yourself with others, you begin respecting your own uniqueness. — Vishwas Chavan

As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect the uniqueness of others. — Robert H. Schuller

When we can no longer see the different gradations among sins and sinners and sinful nations, we have not succeeded in respecting our own badness; we've cheapened God's goodness. If our own legal system does not treat all infractions in the same way, surely God knows that some sins are more heinous than others. If we can spot the difference, we'll be especially eager to put to death those sins which are most offensive to God. — Kevin DeYoung

I cannot give up on my values and beliefs for the sake of respecting someone else's values and morals. Because those values explain who am I. I prefer struggling and even dying for what I believe and what I don't believe.
Silence is not respect; it is not condemning brutality and cruelty, and neglecting your own existence as human being. I will be killed and so many others because of standing against the fallacy and misleading notion of religions. They will torture us and cut us in pieces alive and even won't stop disrespecting our death bodies; that is how these monsters have been governing for hundreds thousands of years. — M.F. Moonzajer

I have never bought into the idea that blood is thicker than water. Love and respect are meant to be earned from our children, our spouses, our families, and our friends. — Raquel Cepeda

Have a big enough heart to love unconditionally, and a broad enough mind to embrace the differences that make each of us unique. — D.B. Harrop

They that live at the source of a great river shall always take the great river for granted but they that live at the estuary of the great river shall always watch the great river in awe and admiration! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

All respect is earned, even self-respect. — Bohdi Sanders

Speak gently to young women as you would to your sisters — Lailah Gifty Akita

I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense. (xxvi) — Eve Ensler

Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them. — Logan Pearsall Smith

A man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he does not discern any truth either in himself or anywhere around him, and thus falls into disrespect towards himself and others. Not respecting anyone, he ceases to love, and having no love, he gives himself up to passions and coarse pleasures, in order to occupy and amuse himself, and in his vices reaches complete bestiality, and it all comes from lying continually to others and to himself. A man who lies to himself is often the first to take offense. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Democracy is not merely a form of Government.
It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience.
It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards our fellow men. — B.R. Ambedkar

Expressing an opinion with an empty soul can complicate your duty of respecting the opinions of others. — Vasilios Karpos

The virtuous man takes the middle road between the two extremes, making a point of being respectful of his own ideas without changing his personality or style. — Auliq Ice

Heroes represent the best of ourselves, respecting that we are human beings. A hero can be anyone from Gandhi to your classroom teacher, anyone who can show courage when faced with a problem. A hero is someone who is willing to help others in his or her best capacity. — Ricky Martin

The traits that bother you in other people are the Coping Skills they developed automatically, as a result of their life experience. — Odille Rault

In a servant leadership culture we learn by choice or example that if we want to be great, we have to serve others respectfully. — Vern Dosch

A woman means by Unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means not giving trouble to others ... thus, while the woman thinks of doing good offices and the man of respecting other people's rights, each sex, without any obvious unreason, can and does regard the other as radically selfish. — C.S. Lewis

He saw people living for their sake, saw them achieving endless things for their sake, traveling, waging wars, suffering endlessly, enduring endlessly, and he could love them for that; — Hermann Hesse

I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat. — James A. Garfield

If you truly have character and respecting others is your core value, you respect everybody regardless of who they are, what they believe and how they behave... — Assegid Habtewold

The first step to liberty is respecting the rights of others. — Brian McGreevy

Barking at people earns their respect about as effectively as staring into the sun improves your vision. — Richelle E. Goodrich

I think the reason that a lot of people have to have a lot of people around is just about being smart and knowing what you want to talk about. I want people to know who I am. Respect is a huge thing - especially in my family. If you don't respect people, people aren't going to respect you back. It's just about yourself, you respecting others, and hopefully everyone else will follow that and respect you, as well. — Miley Cyrus

Love is yet another name for Respect. If you cannot respect a person for what they are; you can never ever truly, madly, or deeply love that person. — Nikita Dudani

I have to respect other's opinions even if I don't agree with them. — Nathaniel Branden

Respecting others' opinions doesn't mean being untrue to our own. — P. M. Forni

Democracy feeds on argument, on the discussion as to the right way forward. This is the reason why respecting the opinion of others belongs to democracy. — Richard Von Weizsaecker

Respect is love in action — Bangambiki Habyarimana

The perception that vulnerability is weakness is the most widely accepted myth about vulnerability and the most dangerous. When we spend our lives pushing away and protecting ourselves from feeling vulnerable or from being perceived as too emotional, we feel contempt when others are less capable or willing to mask feelings, suck it up, and soldier on. We've come to the point where, rather than respecting and appreciating the courage and daring behind vulnerability, we let our fear and discomfort become judgment and criticism. — Amanda Palmer

If we aren't trustworthy to our own words
and values, why should we expect others to trust us with their resources, let alone with their lives? — Assegid Habtewold

If I say I don't want to read the book, I don't want to read the book. — Gillian Flynn

WORTH IT?
It is no credit to our phase of civilization if it is fear rather than ambition that drives most of those who bankrupt themselves on the vanities, or who end up under the surgeon's knife. It is the fear of falling short, of being inadequate in the eyes of others, including loved ones. [ ... ]
It is unfitting, one might say, improper, treating one's owm body as a tool rather than a part of oneself. [ ... ]
The bottom line is that it dishonors ourselves, for we ought to think better of ourselves than that. — Simon Blackburn

The One that not Respect Goodness in Another Person will sooner or Later feel how Hard is the Wall they go Walk against. — Jan Jansen

Tact by its nature entails staying mum, prudently electing to forgo urging other people to pursue an alternative course of action. Creation of silent spaces in our own life and equitable distribution of periods of respite that allow for periods of equable inner reflection is necessary to spur personal growth. It is equally important to honor other people's intrinsic need for periods of introspection, uninterrupted by unsolicited advice — Kilroy J. Oldster

A person fully awakened to the jewel-like dignity of their own life is capable of truly respecting that same treasure in others. — Daisaku Ikeda

to be respected be respecting — Himanshu Arora

Self respect by definition is a confidence and pride in knowing that your behaviour is both honorable and dignified. Therefore when you harass or vilify another person, you not only disrespect them, but you also. -Respect yourself by respecting others. — Miya Yamanouchi

The bully mind is not capable of loving or respecting others nor can it love or respect itself. Life's subtleties and the means of survival require its pretense of both these qualities. — Rick Stein

Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it. You cant draw it for others. You can try, of course, but it doesn't work. People obeying rules laid down my somebody else is not the same thing as respecting life. And if you want to respect life, you have to draw a line. — John Berger

As the master creators on this planet, we can improve conditions for all and learn greater respect for others. — Bryant McGill

The most effective way to be self disciplined, is to submit yourself to your words. — Auliq Ice

Recognizing and respecting differences in others, and treating everyone like you want them to treat you, will help make our world a better place for everyone. Care ... be your best. You don't have to be handicapped to be different. Everyone is different! — Kim Peek

Respect at the cost of others is disrespect in effect. — Muhammad Tariq Majeed

But it's important, while we are supporting lessons in respecting others, to remember that many of our youngest kids need to learn to respect themselves. You learn your worth from the way you are treated. — Anna Quindlen

If we not Respecting Ourselves how can give Respect to Others. — Jan Jansen

When we continue to hate, we continue to lose. When we amplify mutual respect and love, we have a lot to gain. Quite simply, there is more for us to gain through love than hate. — Suzy Kassem

He who loves others is constantly loved by them. He who respects others is constantly respected by them. — Mencius

From the moment I could even understand what "respect" was I knew it was not a choice but the ONLY option. — Carlos Wallace

You know Schmeckle, people are like feet. Most everyone has a pair and yet feet are so unique. So, we must treat all people with respect and accept their unique way. — Ellen Newhouse

He who respects others is respected by them. — Mencius

Respecting others is the biggest discipline. — JP Joshi

Speak kindly to with adult women as you would to your mother. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I've never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others properties. — Michael Caine

The undeniable paradox of human existence is that a person seeks closeness with other people while protecting his or her sanctified right of privacy. Each person must carefully guard their personal identity in order to give their life a unique purposefulness. Loving other people and nature is not mutually exclusive of a person maintaining independence of thought and action. A person need not surrender his or her own pursuit of personal excellence when maintaining a respectful and reciprocal relationship with a life mate. — Kilroy J. Oldster

I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being. — Jackie Robinson

Observing someone doesn't mean that you know them. Too many folks think they know you when they really don't know you. — Werley Nortreus

You and I are both admirers of Marcus Aurelius, and you will remember this passage in his Meditations: "Do wrong to thyself, do wrong to thyself, my soul; but later thou wilt no longer have the opportunity of respecting and honoring thyself. For every man has but one life. But yours is nearly finished, though in it you had no regard for yourself but placed thy felicity in the souls of others. . . . But those who do not observe the impulses of their own minds must of necessity be unhappy." Thank — Pascal Mercier

That to judge others was to willfully do them harm. Respecting differences, she gathered, went beyond simply making allowances; it meant giving up your blinkered perspective, your assumption that you are necessarily right and others necessarily wrong, that the world would be a better place if everyone thought as you did. — A.S.A Harrison

It is vain for you to expect, it is impudent for you to ask of God forgiveness on your own behalf, if you refuse to exercise this forgiving temper with respect to others. — Benjamin Hoadly

The true measure of a man is how he treats you when others are not looking. — Alessandra Torre

You will never gain anyone's approval by begging for it. When you stand confident in your own worth, respect follows. — Mandy Hale