Physical elegance, which is what I am talking about here, comes from the body. This is no superficial matter, but rather the way that man found to honour the way he places his two feet on the ground.

My goal is just to be respected as a man when I walk down the street with my family. I don’t care what your job is, you’re not gonna talk down to me, you’re not gonna try to get a rise out of me. I’m a man first. And in establishing that, some interesting things have happened.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.

Soldiers, I had lately like to have been taken from you by the attempt of a few desperate men, but by the grace and providence of the gods, I am still preserved.

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

In hip-hop, there’s not a lot of love. There’s not a lot of love being spread. It’s always like ‚I’m stuntin‘ on you raps, or I’m better than you raps.‘ It’s not a lot of ‚Yo man, I idolize you raps.‘

I respect Soulja Boy.

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can’t be wrong whose life is in the right.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That’s what I strive to do, that’s what I pray to do every day.

The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To life a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that’s really the essence of the Christian faith.

Lord Jesus, we come just as we are; this is how we came at first, and this is how we come still, with all our failures, with all our transgressions, with all and everything that is what it ought not to be, we come to Thee.

There’s one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and – I’m going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself – I think most respect me.

If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.

I will listen to anyone’s convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.

It’s crazy how fast you get out of shape if you miss a couple days of action.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

My mother was a full-time mother. She didn’t have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences… everything was for her children. I will never be as good a mother as she was. She was just grace incarnate. She was the most generous, loving – she’s better than me.

To Marines, love of liberty is not an empty phrase… Rather, it’s displayed by blood, sweat, and tears for the fallen.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

My great-grandfather and his two brothers fought at Gettysburg. They were in artillery, and they survived the war, thank goodness. So I revere what they did. I think their motivations were honorable when they undertook the war and participated in it along with other Southerners.

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

I have noticed… that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.

There is absolutely no power in our human effort to live holy. It is only by His grace. And the result of receiving grace is we get better at living like Christ, which is something we all want, right?

Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.

When I was old enough to change my name, I changed it to Mr. T so that the first word out of someone’s mouth was ‚Mister,‘ a sign of respect.

When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.

Please think of me like an endangered species and just observe me quietly from far away. If you try to talk to me or touch me casually, I may get intimidated and bite you. So please be careful.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.

The movement of search can only be from the known to the known, and all that the mind can do is to be aware that this movement will never uncover the unknown. Any movement on the part of the known is still within the field of the known.

Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.

I do not pilfer victory.

I don’t envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.

Feeling like you’re respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

If every man loves his mother, he’s going to treat the ladies right, with love and respect.

I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I’ve done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way.

The notion that before you even set out to go to Thailand, you say, ‚I’m not interested,‘ or you’re unwilling to try things that people take so personally and are so proud of and so generous with, I don’t understand that, and I think it’s rude. You’re at Grandma’s house, you eat what Grandma serves you.

Those move easiest who have learn’d to dance.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

Development of outlook naturally begins with a respect for God… Reverence to God and reverence for one’s neighbor and reverence for oneself as a servant of God.

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.

I continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor that, because I know what it means to live as a black person in a racist America.

Like it or not, there are a lot of dance teachers in this country who respect me, whether they personally like me or not.

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues – of my comrades in the movement – who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me.

I’m not trying to be sexy. It’s just my way of expressing myself when I move around.