The family is a great arena for earning the respect of peers and family members. It is also a place for learning how to show honor to those in authority such as teachers, civil servants, and parents. Having the proper attitude toward adults will win their respect and trust. Being obedient to parents is particularly important. Finally, living your life consistently with integrity and sincerity will command respect that will open doors into the future.
"If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are."---John W. Gardner
The following respect quotes emphasize allowing for differences in personality and opinion, promoting dignity, not allowing abuse or put downs, and the freedom to express needs and desires. The family should be a place to retreat, to be confident of acceptance, and experience restoration that will provide an environment for mutual growth. Family should not be a place of shame, embarrassment, or insults. Interaction should be polite and others should feel that they have time to express feelings and thoughts. There should be high positive regard, not shame.
"Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family." -- Virginia Satir
“I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse”
--Benjamin Spock
"When a family is free of abuse and oppression, it can be the place where we share our deepest secrets and stand the most exposed, a place where we learn to feel distinct without being "better," and sacrifice for others without losing ourselves."-- Letty Cottin Pogrebin
If tolerance, respect and equity permeate family life, they will translate into values that shape societies, nations and the world. -– Kofi Annan
"Being considerate of others will take you and your children further in life than any college or professional degree." -- Marian Wright Edelman
The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together. --Erma Bombeck
The following are positive images that can come from an environment covered by love and respect...
Within the happy family you hear cheerful laughter and warm, welcoming goodwill.
A good home environment will be pleasant, restful, and relaxing as a rule.
Even with pressures and trials, family members will get along in a loving way.
The family will provide a stable environment in the midst of storms.
Hurting individuals will be met with sympathy and feel the touch of loved ones.
Teaching respect to children is important and requires consistency and attention. You want your kids to be reasonable in their interactions with others. You want their work to be presentable and respectable. They need to have self respect and show respect for others including their feelings and rights.
The response to this type of behavior should be strong and consistent. Because of busy circumstances, lack of convenience, or just apathy, the negative attitudes and behavior often continue. Addressing conflict is necessary to build family unity as well as for building character into children. The following are steps help address the issues:
Make sure that each child understands the goal – to build unity, not division.
Parents should plan together guidelines for treatment, discipline, and rewards. Setup some simple family rules that are easy to remember and understand.
Don't let problems go unaddressed. Handle quickly so that upcoming family times are not hindered.
Address issues privately with the children involved in the problem. The whole family does not have to sit in and confuse the issue.
Take the time to follow-up and stay with it until it is understood and resolved.
Restore children who have been disciplined so that negative attitudes won’t drag down the family.
Be sure to show love and affection without favoritism. Demonstrate to the children that when issues are resolved, it is now time to move on.
Showing respect for your mother and father is not always easy when there is a difference of opinion. Also, being respectful to a brother or sister gets hard when it appears that rights are being violated. Problems not resolved at home will carry on throughout life.“A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.” -- Billy Graham
Praise your children openly, reprehend them secretly. -- W. Cecil
"We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy."-- Arthur Ashe
"Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate."-- Albert Schweitzer
"Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority. "--Vince Lombardi
"What we do matters to us. Work may not be the most important thing in our lives or the only thing. We may work because we must, but we still want to love, to feel pride in, to respect ourselves for what we do and to make a difference."
-- Sara Ann Friedman
Respect quotes for women...
"Woman must not accept; she must challenge.She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her;she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression."
-- Margaret Sanger
"People are like stained-glass windows.They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealedonly if there is a light from within."
-- Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
Respect quotes for men..."Ignoring a child's disrespect is the surest guarantee that it will continue." --Fred G. Gosman
"Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, because hate in your heart will consume you too." --Will Smith
Respect quotes from the bible....
"A man of knowledge uses words with restraint, and a man of understanding is even-tempered. "--Proverbs 17:27
"A man's pride brings him low, but a man of lowly spirit gains honor."--Proverbs 29:23
