Give a Little Respect?

There are many different levels of respect. For the most part I think we respect people for their words, beliefs and their actions working together. If either do not back the other up it is hard for me to respect that person.

There is also respect for getting things done. I have had bosses and colleagues who I necessarily did not like but I respected them in many ways for what they do and how they do it.

There are many dynamics to this question. I don't achieve it, for example, strangers will often give respect and I have done nothing to earn it, likewise I will give them respect. 'Entitled' has become such a polarizing word hasn't it? But, the fact is we are all entitled to a certain level of respect, until we do or say something to lose it.

Work:

I respect those co-workers who come to work and realize that my time is precious, likewise I with them, and if I want to spend it in meaningless banter, we will meet at the bar later and I will listen until my ears bleed.

Personal:

Much more difficult to examine. The only person I am 'personal' with on a day to day basis is my lady friend, and I suppose we have built a foundation of respect for one another early on, so it is not much of an issue for either one of us.

Did you know that respect can be synonymous with fear? In fact, it is used many times in that regard in the Bible, when verses are said to "fear God" in essence they mean to respect God. Same with nature or any other force that we are not completely knowledgeable of, which is everything.

The idea is, if we fail to respect (insert anything) then we will face repercussion of some sort. This is true. If I disrespect my father or mother, there will be personal and emotional repercussion for me, same with anyone I love.

If I disrespect a stranger, I am in effect doing my self a dis-service, especially in that stranger is in need, considering that bad things that happen to one of us, can happen to any of us.

As far as doing good deeds for others, it is a pleasure and always has been for me. I think I would be to worried about good deeds, respect would be the last thing on my mind.

Some people are to hung up on it.

I think everyone deserves some kind of respect, just for existing. But if you're talking about EARNING respect, then I guess I would do it by showing integrity, being thoughtful, doing the right thing, but knowing when to set boundaries. Letting people know that they can't manipulate you is a HUGE part of gaining respect. You can do nice things all day long, but if you let ppl walk all over you, you don't have their respect.

I don't know how I would define it... Possibly: high regard.

Well, that is what all the younger ones do. My sis, she is way too small than me and she annoys me like anything, ever since she was born and she hadn't stopped it even now. Now, she is 17. I tried many a things, but she never stops it. You know what she did, some days, back. Those were some important papers of my case file. She just used it for drawing some stupid things, when i asked, she said she thought those were one side sheets. Just imagine!!! So, i suggest you to enjoy it. Seriously.. No other go. The younger ones will never stop annoying. When he grows, he will understand it. Hope both of you are so dearer, despite of all these stuffs. And, i tell you, if your brother stops doing it, you will definitely miss the lively feeling at your home.

Many people confuse fear with respect. "Where does a grizzly bear get to sit? Anywhere it wants to". That's not respect for the bear. That's fear. Respect is not about rising above other people somehow but about rising within ourselves. That rising within oneself is what I respect. I knew a farm girl with no education and three kids by the time she was nineteen. She was poor, drove a broken-down forty year old pick-up and her husband was beating her and molesting one of the children.

Instead of wallowing in her situation, she fled, got her GED, put her husband in jail, got three jobs and earned two years of college through coorespondence courses. Then, she entered a prestigious nursing school and knocked out a BSN while working as a nurses aide and struggling to support her three children without any help from their father. When she graduated, I hired her starting at the same then as $100,000 today. She worked her tail off for that money. Sammy went on to own four nursing homes. I respect HER.

Her best friend, though, was a doctor's daughter, rich, drove a new car every year that her daddy bought her, went to a private Catholic girl's school and daddy paid for a BA degree in biology for her from a fancy private college. (How can you get a BA degree in biology?). She never had to work a day in her life. She graduated the same time Sammy did from nursing school and I hired her, too. I also fired her less than a week later because she refused to work hard, whined about having to pull on-call or do more than her "share" and wanted a "shadier" parking space for her beamer that daddy had bought her for a graduation present. I did not respect her.

Although both women had arrived at the same place, they were not equally worthy of respect because one rose very high within herself to get there and the other rose very little within herself to get there. One earned it. One didn't.

For me respect is confidence and admiration in another person character. And that is why it must be earn and not granted

You can earn respect:

- By showing honor(my words and my acts are one)

- By showing responsibility (If I promise to do something I do it)

- By admiting when you are wrong.

- By having a concept of acountability (if I did something wrong I will try and make it right instead of blaming others)

- By showing good manners even with the ones that do not show it to you.

- By having a sense of duty (like when a man gets a woman pregnant and instead of running up helps with the child, monetary and being there.)

Some people confuse respect with fear. Its not.

You start with self respect, because unless you respect yourself no one in this world would give you a second look. You also live your life the very best way you know how, trying to avoid hurting other people on your way. You open your mind and heart and learn to share of yourself with people who love you. That is all you can do.

as an 18yr old girl at the head of a crew of six males in their mid twenties, i have learned a bit about respect, and how to earn it.

i have learned that, as section leader, i have to hustle harder, work longer, complain less and run faster. I work from 0730 in the morning until about nine at night. i get there before everyone else. i leave after the last person is out the door. i get one off day a week. i don't ***** about it.

because of this, most of the men at work respect me. (most being the operative word here....it's not always sunshine and rainbows, esp when we get new guys who don't know the drill.)

now, i respect everyone upon first meeting them. you have to scew up, and A LOT in order for me to lose that respect for you. i don't hold respect back. don't cost me a think to just automatically assume you deserve my respect, and it makes for less fights.

Respect means different things to different people. Go into a prison, and ask the same question, you'll get a different answer than you will in an office building, a gang, or the military.

Respect often has a lot to do with admiration, (or fear) so it's very individual...

Hun, all throughout history women have had to work twice as hard to be considered half as good as men, luckily for us...this is not hard :)

As for you question, it depends on what the person in queston holds highly, or considers a 'big deal' to put it crudely.

I respect people who can forgive easily when they have been severly hurt, like the Omish in the news last year after that school shooting when they visited the man in pison to tell him that they frgave him for murdering their innocent children with no motive whatsoerer. THAT to me is a great cause for respect. That and people who can be themselves and do what's right even in the hardest circumstances.

Hope I helped!