Respect Quotes - Page 30

The Navajo, for example, regard their traditional lands as within the four sacred peaks. One of those sacred peaks is the San Francisco Peaks where the ski resort, one of the holiest, sacred mountains in Navajo cosmology. I mean, it's considered a horrible desecration. I mean, you know, put it into another cultural context and you wouldn't be able to think of that being, with any other racial group. But for Indians because, you know, we think they really don't care about land or they have primitive ideas or they don't have ownership, we completely disrespect that.

With respect to the FBI, they had problems communicating in a vertical way, within the FBI itself, so that information of importance could get pushed up to those who were decision-makers.

You will be loved and respected only if you love and respect yourself.

I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.

Reverence for life is more than solicitude or sensitivity for life. It is a sense of the whole, a capacity for inspired response, a respect for the intricate universe of individual life. It is the supreme awareness of awareness itself.

We reserve our deepest respect and admiration for those who volunteer for service and give their lives to help keep our nation secure.

Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there.

I remember the evacuee children from towns and cities throwing stones at the farm animals. When we explained that if you did that you wouldnt have any milk, meat or eggs, they soon learned to respect the animals.

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.

You don't have permission to disrespect yourself.

And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particularly with respect to how they're serving minority children.

I have as much input to the blues; I just never got the chance, the opportunity or maybe the respect.

I deserve to have boundaries, and my boundaries are respected. I love and honor myself. I am safe. All is well.

Many argue; not many converse.

You must learn to respect," Papa said. But I do not respect her," I said. Papa paused for a moment, and patted my leg. "Then you must learn to hide your disrespect.

Wikipedia lacks the habit or tradition of respect for expertise. As a community, far from being elitist (which would, in this context, mean excluding the unwashed masses), it is anti-elitist (which, in this context, means that expertise is not accorded any special respect, and snubs and disrespect of expertise is tolerated).

Terrific marriages are completely respectful, transparent and loyal.

I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.

Reproach is shame, blame, disgrace, disapproval and a disrespectful attitude toward yourself. When you're under reproach, your behavior shows it.

Our will makes constantly a sort of agreement with the world, whereby, if the world will continually show some respect to the will, the will shall consent to be strenuous in its industry.

To be capable of respect is almost as rare as to be worthy of it.

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.

The logical conclusion to a compassionate and respectful relationship to sentient animals is that we stop eating them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe