Period 2 Blog #4

The week of October 5-9 is designated as the Week of Respect in New Jersey to recognize the importance of character education and a positive school climate

Your assignment this week is to copy and paste the following quotations into ascending numerical sequence with one line of space between the quotations (#1-#20) and respond to the following 5 questions:

1. What do you do to show respect?

2. Can you think of a time when you failed to do this?

3. How might someone show a lack of respect for himself/herself?

4. Can you think of someone who stands out by consistently demonstrating

disrespectful behavior? What effect does this have on his/her life?

5. Can you think of someone who stands out by consistently demonstrating

respectful behavior? What effect does this have on his/her life?

6. No one is happy unless he respects himself. - Jean Jacques Rousseau

11. If I trim myself to suit others I will soon whittle myself away. - Anonymous

7. Form a good opinion of yourself and then deserve the good opinion of others. - Anonymous

14. Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully. - Frederick Douglass

9. Through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. - Agatha Christie

2. If I am not for myself, who then will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I? - The Talmud

13. If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

1. El respecto al derecho ajeno es la paz. Respect for the rights of another, that is peace. – Mexican-American Proverb

5. We must all learn to live together as brothers. Or we will all perish as fools. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

15. Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. Honor your father and mother which is the first commandment with a promise. – BIBLE, Ephesians 6:1-2

19. Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king. – BIBLE, I Peter 2:17.

18. While we are thus unconstrained in our private intercourse, a spirit of reverence pervades our public acts; we are prevented from doing wrong by respect for authority and for the laws, having an especial regard to those which are ordained for the protection of the injured as well as to those unwritten laws which bring upon the transgressor of them the reprobation of the general sentiment. - IBID Book II, 35, Funeral Speech of Pericles.

8. For those who are always courteous and respectful of elders, four things increase: life, beauty, happiness, and strength. - Buddha, The Dhammapada

17. I therefore believe it is my duty to my country to love it, to support its Constitution, to obey its laws, to respect its flag, and to defend it against all enemies. (The American’s Creed) - William Tyler Page [1868-1942]

20. When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel truths to be self-evident. - Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776

12. If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all the people some of the time you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all the time. (To a caller at the White House) - In Alexander K. McClure: Lincoln’s Yarns and Stories [1904], page 124

16. Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments. – BIBLE, Psalm 119:6

4. He who walks in another’s tracks leaves no footprints. - Joan L. Brannon

3. Every action in company ought to be with some sign of respect to those present. - Rules of Civility

10. To be nobody-but-yourself--in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else--means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. - e.e. cummings