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Unpaid work never commands respect ... Unpaid work never commands respect ...

Harriot Stanton Blatch

voluntarism | housework | wages

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To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discr... - MORE To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference.

Joan Didion

self-respect

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More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers hi... - MORE More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.

Uta Hagen

actors | acting

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From the moment a child begins to speak, he is taught to respect the word; he is taught how to use the word and how not to use it.... - MORE From the moment a child begins to speak, he is taught to respect the word; he is taught how to use the word and how not to use it. The word is all-powerful, because it can build a man up, but it can also tear him down. That's how powerful it is. So a child is taught to use words tenderly and never against anyone; a child is told never to take anyone's name or reputation in vain.

Henry Old Coyote

cursing/swearing/name calling | childrearing across cultures

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The principal thing children are taught by hearing these lullabies is respect. They are taught to respect certain things in life a... - MORE The principal thing children are taught by hearing these lullabies is respect. They are taught to respect certain things in life and certain people. By giving respect, they hope to gain self-respect and through self-respect, they gain the respect of others. Self-respect is one of the qualities my people stress and try to nurture, and one of the controls an Indian has as he grows up. Once you lose your self-respect, you just go down.

Henry Old Coyote

cultural identity | childrearing across cultures

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Thou art a fellow of a good respect;
Thy life hath had some smatch of honor in it. Thou art a fellow of a good respect;
Thy life hath had some smatch of honor in it.

Shakespeare

honor | praise | reputation

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You have too much respect upon the world.
They lose it that do buy it with much care. You have too much respect upon the world.
They lose it that do buy it with much care.

Shakespeare

worry | world, the | anxiety

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It is not night when I do see your face,
Therefore I think I am not in the night;... - MORE It is not night when I do see your face,
Therefore I think I am not in the night;
Nor doth this wood lack worlds of company,
For you, in my respect, are all the world.

Shakespeare

love

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No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect. No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

George Bernard Shaw

crafts

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If the older generation are not upright, the young will not respect them. If the older generation are not upright, the young will not respect them.

unknown author

generations | morality | examples

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