Treating the youth of today to have respect for themselves and others can seem like a difficult task to accomplish. Here is a look at some great quotes about being disrespected by others that are encouraging to remember.
“A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.”
“A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day.”
“A true and genuine impudence is ever the effect of ignorance, without the least sense of it.”
“Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one’s own and that of other people.”
“Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people’s happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.”
“Contempt is the only way to triumph over calumny.”
“Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one’s own despised and unwanted feelings.”
“Disrespect cannot be commanded, it must be earned.”
“Disrespect is the weapon of the weak.”
“I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.”
“I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.”
“I was taught you never, ever disrespect your opponent or your teammates or your organization or your manager and never, ever your uniform.”
“I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past.”
“I would never disrespect any man, woman, chick or child out there. We’re all the same. What goes around comes around, and karma kicks us all in the butt in the end of the day.”
“If the disagreement was strong enough, we could end up pretty close to the borderline of incivility.”
“If they disrespect you to your face imagine what they’re doing behind your back.”
“If we as a people realized the greatness from which we came we would be less likely to disrespect ourselves.”
“If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do?”
“Ignoring a child’s disrespect is the surest guarantee that it will continue.”
“Impertinence will intermeddle in things in which it has no concern, showing a want of breeding, or, more commonly, a spirit of sheer impudence.”
“I’ve got a good man. He takes care of me. I don’t have to be scared of anything because I know he will kick every ass… disrespect him and you’ve got a problem.”
“Men are respectable only as they respect.”
“No matter what the reason, if you start to scream and shout, you look a fool, and you feel a fool, and you earn the disrespect of everyone.”
“Only once in my life was I on the edge of incivility. I do not like to be unkind.”
“Only the contemptible fear contempt.”
“Our contempt for others proves nothing but the illiberality and narrowness of our own views.”
“Respect depicts acceptance while disrespect is rejection.”
“That bad manners are so prevalent in the world is the fault of good manners.”
“That showed a total lack of disrespect from the player.”
“The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.”
“The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas.”
“The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.”
“The insolence of time is like a blow in the face from an unseen enemy.”
“The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.”
“The way to avoid the imputation of impudence is not to be ashamed of what we do, but never to do what we aught to be ashamed of.”
“There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.”
“There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well.”
“There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.”
“There is no respect for others without humility in one’s self.”
“Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.”
“True irreverence is disrespect for another man’s god.”
“What goes around, comes around.”
“When people don’t respect one another seldom is there honesty.”
“You don’t have permission to disrespect yourself.”
“You don’t have to disrespect and insult others simply to hold your own ground. If you do, that shows how shaky your own position is.”
Dealing with rude people can be difficult to handle at times. When you feel like you have been disrespected, remember the value you carry for your own self.
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