Respect Quote by Helen Rappaport

“I meditated on the nature of friendship as I practiced the craft. My friends had always come from outside the mainstream. I had always…

— Pat Conroy

“I gave him the qualities I personally admire in either sex—intelligence, courage but not foolhardiness, sensitivity but not sentimentality, and reticence.”

— P. D. James

“A life sustained by quietude and the energies of tolerance, kindness, courtesy, and acceptance. In a blustery world, it's courageous to move quietly, claiming…

— William Norwich

"I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received, but even…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“They grew up, moulded by the harsh or kindly pressure of their fellows, to be either well nurtured, generous, sound, or mentally crippled, bitter,…

— Olaf Stapledon

“I must say that I have always felt that, in the deepest sense, we are all brothers. Class distinctions have never meant anything to…

— Christopher Isherwood

“I was perfectly calm and perfectly insane, perfectly prepared to accept what the moment had offered. Indifference of that magnitude is rare and because…

— Paul Auster

“It is, after all, a simple and tragic thing that on occasion our unkindness to others is actually a desperate effort to be kind…

— Tahereh Mafi

“We can be kind, generous, just, courteous, and merciful sporadically, but to display those virtues, consistently, calls for an enormous display of courage.”

— Gary Zukav

“She prized the frank, the open-hearted, the eager character beyond all others. Warmth and enthusiasm did captivate her still. She felt that she could…

— Jane Austen

“Some offered such rude comfort as their sympathetic hearts but not too fecund intellects could devise,”

— Sir Hall Caine

“tied to honor and shame, how a person was seen, how things appeared, whether a person was respectable or not. All efforts to save…

— Cheryl Reid