Pillar for March/April

Respect:

Treat others with respect: follow the Golden Rule * Be tolerant of differences * Use good manners, not bad language * Be considerate of the feelings of others * Don't threaten, hit or hurt anyone * Deal peacefully with anger, insults and disagreements

The qualities that make each of us different make each of us special.
—Katy Fischer

Every person that you meet knows something that you don’t; learn from them.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

It seems that you are happy and successful in life if you are doing your
thing, you know specifically what your thing is, and that which you are doing
earns you the respect of other people, because what you are doing benefits
other people as well as yourself.
—Denis Waitley

We are defined by the way we treat ourselves and the way we treat other
people.
—Oprah Winfrey

Lack of understanding brings about all conflicts and disagreements.
—Katy Fischer

Act with courtesy and fairness regardless of how others treat you. Don’t let
them determine your response.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Anger if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury
that provokes it.
—Seneca

Show respect for everyone who works for a living, regardless of how trivial
their job.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Tolerance consists of seeing certain things with your heart instead of with
your eyes.
—Orlando A. Battista

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about,
and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is
directed.
—Lord Clarendon

Give a good deed the credit of a good motive; and give an evil deed the
benefit of the doubt.
—Brander Matthews

Keep a tight rein on your temper.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Tolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand another’s beliefs,
practices, and habits without necessarily sharing or accepting them.
—Joshua L. Liebman

How I treat others is my opinion of myself.
—Katy Fischer

Half the secret of getting along with people is consideration of their views;
the other half is tolerance in one’s own views.
—Daniel Frohman

It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley

He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he must pass
himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.
—Lord Herbert

Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should
have accomplished with your abilities.
—John Wooden

Toleration is good for all or it is good for none.
—Edmund Burke

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows
something.
—Wilson Mizner

Remember that how you say something is as important as what you say.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

He who smiles, rather than rages, is always the stronger.
—Japanese Wisdom

Talkers will refrain from evil speaking when listeners refrain from evil
hearing.
—Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

Than self-restraint there is nothing better.
—Lao-Tzu

No race can prosper until it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling
a field as in writing a poem.
—Booker T. Washington

Every man is valued in this world as he shows by his conduct that he wishes
to be valued.
—Jean de la Bruyere

Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures,
costs nothing, and conveys much. It pleases him who gives and
receives and thus, like mercy, is twice blessed.
—Erastus Wiman

Remember the three Rs: Respect for self; Respect for others; Responsibility
for all your actions.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained
through understanding.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Equal rights for all, special privileges for none.
—Thomas Jefferson

Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is rainbow-red, yellow,
brown, black and white-we’re all precious in God’s sight.
—Jesse Jackson

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot. Men are not
superior by the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the
best heart-the best brain.
—Robert G. Ingersoll

I believe the child should be taught from the very first that the whole world
is his world, that adult and child share one world, that all generations are
needed.
—Pearl S. Buck

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people,
different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
—Jimmy Carter

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small
minds discuss people.
—Eleanor Roosevelt

I anticipate the day when to command respect in the remotest regions it will
be sufficient to say, "I am an American."
—Gouverneur Morris, address to U. S. Senate 1800

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself.
What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
—Hermann Hesse

You can easily judge the character of people by how they treat those who can
do nothing for them.
—Anonymous

Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
—George Washington

Punctuality is the politeness if kings.
—Louis XVIII

When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of
them, as if their reason had left them.
—Willa Cather

When you are content to be simply yourself, and don’t compare or compete,
everybody will respect you.
—Lao - Tzu

It is understanding that gives us the ability to have peace. When we
understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours,
then we can sit down and work out our differences.
—Harry S. Truman

Treat the world well. It was not given to you by your parents, but lent to
you by your children.
—Ida B. Wells

Good manners will often take people where neither money nor education will
take them.
—Fanny Jackson Coppin

Good manners are more like emotions. One must feel them not merely exhibit
them.
—Amy Vanderbilt

Once we give up searching for approval, we often find it easier to earn
respect and approval.
—Gloria Steinem

Being angry with people hurts you more than them.
—Oprah Winfrey

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not
superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who
have the best heart – the best brain.
—Robert Ingersoll

The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to
extend a helping hand to the less fortunate. A race, like an individual,
lifts itself up by lifting others up.
—Booker T. Washington

The words you speak today should be soft and tender ... for tomorrow you may
have to eat them.
— Unknown

In his private heart no man much respects himself.
— Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), 19th-century American humorist, author and
journalist

The highest result of education is tolerance.
— Helen Keller, 20th-century American Nobel Prize-winning social activist,
public speaker and author

Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of
fear is make it easier for people to accept themselves, to like themselves.
— Bonaro Overstreet

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.
— Jesse Jackson, 20th-century American political activist, preacher

Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be better than them.
— Elvis Presley, 20th-century American celebrity entertainer

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love
one another.
— Jonathan Swift, 17th/18th-century English satirist

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
— William Hazlitt, early 18th-century English essayist and literary critic

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves.
—Lydia M. Child

Guard within yourself that treasure kindness. Know how to give without
hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
—George Sand

I wonder why it is that we are not all kinder to each other than we are. How
much the world needs it! How easily it is done!
—Henry Drummond

Small kindnesses, small courtesies, small considerations, habitually
practiced in our social intercourse, give a greater charm to the character
than the display of great talent and accomplishments.
—Kelty

I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than
a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance.
Some one has said that most of us don’t think, we just occasionally rearrange
our prejudices. And I suspect that even today…the quality of true tolerance
is as rare as the quality of mercy.
—Frank Knox

Tolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand another’s beliefs,
practices and habits without necessarily sharing or accepting them.
—Joshua L. Liebman

That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind.
—Martin Luther King, Jr.

Treat people as if they were what they should be, and you help them become
what they are capable of becoming.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We all live under the same sky, but we don’t all have the same horizon.
—Konrad Adenauer

The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant…His culture is based
on "I am not too sure."
—H. L. Mencken

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
—Mother Teresa

The person who pursues revenge should dig two graves.
—Old proverb

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody – it saves so much trouble.
—Rudyard Kipling

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by
what others say about him.
—Leo Aikman

Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.
—Anonymous

Great Spirit, grant that I may not criticize my neighbor until I have walked
a mile in his moccasins.
—Native American saying

This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no
possible value to him.
—William Lyon Phelps

It is bad manners to say, "You are welcome to your own opinion"; but it is
the perfection of good fellowship to really mean it.
—George Bernard Shaw

True politeness is perfect ease and freedom. It simply consists in treating
others just as you love to be treated yourself.
—Earl of Chesterfield

The test of a man’s or woman’s breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
—George Bernard Shaw

Never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions you have no
respect.
—Anonymous

Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong.
—Mahatma Gandhi

The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
—Anonymous

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