Be Respectful Quotes

• Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any.

  Mark Twain

  Respectful, Ifs, Superiors

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Spiritual

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.480, Princeton University Press

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• Give the respect you want to receive; embody the grace you hope to encounter; and help others with no expectations whatsoever.

  Cory Booker

  Helping Others, Giving, Expectations

  FaceBook post by Cory Booker from Aug 24, 2016

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• The quality of everything we do: our physical actions, our verbal actions, and even our mental actions, depends on our motivation. That's why it's important for us to examine our motivation in our day to day life. If we cultivate respect for others and our motivation is sincere, if we develop a genuine concern for others’ well-being, then all our actions will be positive.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.

  Lakhdar Brahimi

  Respect, Understanding, Tolerance

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• I believe in treating other people with respect. My style is to speak to people, be available to them and willing to answer their questions. This also means being straightforward and honest with them.

  Sanford I. Weill

  Respect, Believe, Mean

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• Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it. No destructive lies. No ridiculous fears. No debilitating anger.

  Bill Bradley

  Motivational, Friendship, Forgiveness

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• Treat the world the way you want to be treated.

  Mike Tyson

  Respect, Honesty, Kindness

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.

  Tecumseh

  Respect, Native American, People

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• It's amazing what people will do when you see the best in them, when you honor them, when you respect them. It not only strengthens the relationship, but it will help that other person rise higher.

  Joel Osteen

  Respect, People, Honor

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  A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.

  Dave Barry

  Inspirational, Motivational, Respect

  Dave Barry (1998). “Dave Barry Turns 50”, Crown

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  Deal with yourself as a individual, worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Inspirational, Happiness, Inspiring

  Nikki Giovanni (1994). “Racism 101”, William Morrow & Co

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• The most influential person in the room isn't the one who is being a bully, talking loudly, and imposing him- or herself on others. Surrendered people understand that true power comes from being respectful and listening.

  Judith Orloff

  Talking, True Power, People

  "7 Habits of Surrendered People". omtimes.com. April 6, 2014.

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• Don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with.

  Gerard K. O'Neill

  Respect, Peace, Freedom

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• If you want to be loved, start loving others who need your love....If you want others to sympathize with you, start showing sympathy to those around you. If you want to be respected, you must learn to be respectful to everyone, both young and old....Whatever you want others to be, first be that yourself; then you will find others responding in like manner to you.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Needs, Want, Firsts

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• Be more humble than a blade of grass, more tolerant than a tree, always offering respect onto others and never expecting any in return

  Chaitanya Mahaprabhu

  Happiness, Respect, Kindness

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• I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

  Maya Angelou

  Respect, African American, Black Women

  Twitter post from Nov 23, 2015

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• Believe the best of everybody.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Inspirational, Believe, Belief

  Rudyard Kipling (2015). “Rudyard Kipling's Short Stories: Short Story Collections”, p.165, 谷月社

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• Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing. Instead of offering empathy, we often have a strong urge to give advice or reassurance and to explain our own position or feeling. Empathy, however, calls upon us to empty our mind and listen to others with our whole being.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Respect, Strong, Offering

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• In learning to pay respectful attention to one another and plants and animals, we relearn the acts of empathy, and thus humility and compassion - ways of proceeding that grow more and more necessary as the world crowds in.

  William Kittredge

  Inspirational, Motivational, Learning

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• We are all one family in the world. Building a community that empowers everyone to attain their full potential through each of us respecting each other's dignity, rights and responsibilities makes the world a better place to live.

  Pope John Paul II

  Respect, Responsibility, Rights

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• I really believe in non-violence, but I also believe in a short of resistance that has to be respectful.

  Alexandra Paul

  Believe, Atheism, Resistance

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• I try to be respectful of how other people think, I try to listen to what they're saying.

  Rick Scott

  Thinking, People, Trying

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• At the Olympics, you there to do a job. I feel you should take it seriously. You should be respectful. You are putting on the red-white-and-blue and going out there to perform for your country.

  Shannon Miller

  Country, Jobs, Blue

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• Mothers are the rocks of our families and a foundation in our communities. In gratitude for their generous love, patient counsel, and lifelong support, let us pay respect to the women who carry out the hard work of motherhood with skill and grace, and let us remember those mothers who, though no longer with us, inspire us still.

  Barack Obama

  Mother, Gratitude, Hard Work

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