Act with Honor & Respect Quotes
How you treat people when nothing is at stake is who you actually are. Honor and respect open doors that talent alone cannot keep open. This Character path holds history's deepest quotes on integrity, kindness, and respect. Scroll through and put them to work.
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“Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.”
“Treat everyone with politeness and kindness, not because they are nice, but because you are.”
“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.”
“In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.”
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
“Instead of condemning people, let's try to understand them. Let's try to figure out why they do what they do. That's a lot more profitable and intriguing than criticism; and it breeds sympathy, tolerance and kindness.”
“The biggest lesson I've learned is that hurt people hurt people, and kindness is just as contagious. So if you can focus your efforts on engineering kindness, it will prevail.”
“Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.”
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
“If we could look into each other's hearts and understand the unique challenges each of us faces, I think we would treat each other much more gently, with more love, patience, tolerance, and care.”
“Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the wrong. Sometime in life you will have been all of these.”
“To understand all is to forgive all.”
“I will laud mine enemies and they will become friends.”
“If you have to demand respect, you don't deserve it.”
“You can't force respect, but you can inspire it.”
“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
“Loyalty is not a word, it's a lifestyle.”
“The world is good natured to people that are good natured.”
“All doors are open to courtesy.”
“Success is the ability to get what you want from life without interfering with another person's ability to get what they want from life.”
“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”
“Lack of loyalty is one of the major causes of failure in every walk of life.”
“He that cannot obey, cannot command.”
“Never interrupt someone doing something you said could not be done.”
“Respect is how to treat everyone, not just those you want to impress”
“I'm nice to everybody, I respect other people. If you respect me, I respect you”
“When people feel respected, they are more likely to respect others.”
“The best way to get rid of an enemy is to make a friend of him.”
“Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.”
“Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.”
“When our actions are based on good intentions, our soul has no regrets.”
“Love your neighbor as yourself.”
“He who plots to hurt others often hurts himself.”
“Always stop to think whether your fun may be the cause of another’s unhappiness.”
“I do not steal victory.”
“Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.”
“One cannot use an evil action with reference to a good intention.”
“To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.”
“A noble cause does not need to relentlessly smear its critics.”
“Abraham Lincoln never denigrated, never scapegoated, never finger-pointed. And he had reason to.”
“Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy—they’re given after all. Choices can be hard.”
“Play fair, be prepared for others to play dirty, and don’t let them drag you into the mud.”
“Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.”
“Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.”
“You cannot save people. You can only love them.”
“Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.”
“Listening is love in action.”
“Once you know the difference between right and wrong, you have lots fewer decisions to make.”
“Every act has both good and evil results. The best we can do is lean to the light.”
“True it is, we only hate those whom we do not know.”
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