Arab Proverb Quotes

Even if people censure me, they should do so hat in hand.

If you bow at all, bow low.

You have it, madam.

Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honor to whom honor

There is great power in deference. Deference works with everybody.

My one thing is respect. I don't care about anything else. You should respect everyone around you - the people who work for you, peers. Be classy.

I would never disrespect anyone.

The only thing I command is respect.

A sacrifice is best refuted by accepting it.

One of the things I love about Africa is the amount of dignity and respect and humility you see all the time. You don't realise how often you're disrespected until you are surrounded by respect.

If a man can beat you, walk him.

Civility does not mean surrender.

Better to be in the dust than crawl near the throne.

To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.

I was told that karate has a courtesy: 'Start with a bow and end with a bow.' This is something important we value in our lives, because we never forget courtesy and a feeling of gratitude wherever we go.

One must not mix up prudence with gestures of servility.

It is not for us to hold ourselves above the position of grateful people. We have to be able to accept. Anything else shows an unwillingness to grant someone else the superior place.

I think every actor should be always grateful when they work.

It was ingrained in me to be gracious.

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.

Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.

This is not what I would have chosen. But I have a heart to be obedient.

I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor is it prompted by any fear of the punishment which might be inflicted on me.

If I go to your home, and you're cooking me a meal, I will eat whatever you put in front of me.