What is respect?

Question:Where does it come from. Why do you respect things? Don't you usually respect what you love? Or respect what might hurt you or respect what is awesome or respect what helps you get a raise (boss) or respect someone

just because you don't want conflict.

What is R-E-S-P-E-C-T?
Self-love?
The concept of honoring yourself and others?

This concept doesn't mean anything to me.

Respect comes from love and honor comes from love. What else is there? Also, there must be common sense in you.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Where does it come from. Why do you respect things? Don't you usually respect what you love? Or respect what might hurt you or respect what is awesome or respect what helps you get a raise (boss) or respect someone

just because you don't want conflict.

What is R-E-S-P-E-C-T?
Self-love?
The concept of honoring yourself and others?

This concept doesn't mean anything to me.

Respect comes from love and honor comes from love. What else is there? Also, there must be common sense in you.

respect is a very powerful word. according to wikipedia, "Respect is taking into consideration the views and desires of others, and including it into your decicions. When you respect another, you factor and weigh their thought's and desires into your planning and balance it into your decision making." i think respect can be applied to many things, and it is easier to give examples of respect than to define it.

RESPECT is admiring a work without feeling jealous....
and also try to achieve the same honour that work has earned for the doer....
To earn respect you have to live up to the expectation one has from you...

like all human characteristics, it's a combo of genetics and upbringing

Respect is...listening with out interrupting
Respect is...taking your partner's feelings into consideration
Respect is...keeping an open mind
Respect is...agreeing to disagree
Respect is...trying to understand your partner's viewpoint
Respect is...loving yourself
Respect is...trust and honesty
Respect is...giving each other space
Respect is...nonviolence
Respect is...direct communication
Respect is...building a person up instead of tearing them down
Respect is...friendship
Respect is…not pressuring the other person:))

Respect is earned and very difficult to maintance.
Respect must be mutual and no two ways about it.

Respect is what men prefer even more than love.

Respect is more masculine, formal, impersonal, regarding.
Love is more feminine, personal, emotionally caring.

"Soul Mates and Twin Flames," Elizabeth Clare Prophet,
"What Wives Wish Their Husbands Knew about Women," Dr. James Dobson.

I respect guns for their ability to kill, I do not love them.
I respect my wife for the work she does for me and for others, but I love her for who she is.
I respect my father for all the money he worked hard for to support me throughout my life. I love him for being my Dad.
I respect my teachers for their knowledge they shared with me, I didnt love most of them.
I respect my elders for the experiences they have had that I have not. I dont have to love them for that. An old wino in the gutter has had many life experiences that add up to who he is. I dont have to love him for his decisions, but I must respect that since I wasnt there, I dont know what I would have done. Perhaps I would have done worse.
Self respect is honor. Respect yourself for all your mistakes, you are still your own person. Loving yourself helps.
If you dont love yourself, you can not know how to love others.
Love is what you give of yourself to others, not what you can get from them.
Respect is allowing others to be who they are without trying to change them.
Loving yourself is being who you are without trying to be someone else.

To me respect is everything.

it can mean two things,
either you respect people cuz you want them to respect you back.
or
you respect people that deserves your respect.
like something amazing they did.

just like trust, respect is not free but earned.

but before you can respect people, you've to learn to respect yourself first.
like treasure yourself.
than some people will respect you.

heres a list of people that don't respect themselves and haha dont deserve my respect.
1. Pornstars
2. Prostitute
3. Stripper

Respect is treating someone in the way that you would like to be treated.

I think that you should have a 'default' level of politeness for strangers which will change as you get to know them.

If, for example, they steal things from you, then you are right to put your valuables out of their way. On the other hand, if they help you clean up after a kitchen spillage, then a bit more friendliness would be in order.

Again, if they say something that you know isn't true, you are going to be wary of accepting their word on something else. If they later own up, you adjust your opinion accordingly.

Love isn't part of the issue here for me. In fact it can muddy the waters.

You can love someone you don't respect and respect someone you don't love.

Honour is more like the right word. You could say that respect is giving someone their appropriate level of honour.
That sounds a bit mathematically clinical, doesn't it? But, it gets nearest to my opinion in the words that you've used to ask the Q.

the dignity that you give to yourself and to others.

Respect is what you make it determined by how you define it. Respect can mean nothing or everything. You will find that there are some people that will never respect you no matter how much "better" you are then them, but you have to understand that their respect means nothing to you. Although respect is a relative term, having respect of the "right" kind of people can be very important.
For example if you come from somewhere the respect you have on the "streets" is more important then having respect for the law can severely blur the way you interpret this term.
Collectively we all hope to define this as the acceptance of our peers in nothing short of a positive way to improve the society we allready exist in.
Usually the respect of the people that mean the most to us is the most important, all we can hope is that we have our chips in the right pot.
I aspire to have the respect of all that read this and hope that my words somehow touched them in someway, anything short of that and I could not respect myself.

i am the same as you i was just about to ask the same question! that is weird...e-mail me about anything you want it might be interesting to read ??? sorry i cant answer your question tho so i will just read the answers here..........