The little things we learn from our parents, teachers, and friends can be very beneficial to us in life. These simple things can be used to guide us through our daily lives and make overcoming difficulties easier. I have been taught many things by friends and family, but out of all of the things I have learned, I consider the value of respect the most important. The importance of respect was not clear to me until about my last year of middle school. In fifth grade, I was a student at the top of my class. For almost all of my elementary school years, I kept an all A grade average and was very active in activities that the school offered. In most of my classes, I was almost always the teacher’s favorite student: My dedication to completing …show more content…
I kept this same mentality through all of the sixth grade and most of seventh. Towards the end of seventh grade, my peers were starting to change my view on school. They used to tell me that I was a teacher's pet and cared too much about school and that it was going to affect my social life and I believed them. When seventh grade started, I took what my peers said into account. I was still passionate about my school work, but my attitude started to change along with the quality of my schoolwork. I was less attentive in class and I would sometimes catch myself talking back to my teachers. Despite doing this, I would only receive mild warnings and no major discipline. This led me to believe that there would be no consequence to lack of respect to the teachers, as long as I was excelling in my school work. Eighth grade is where the importance of respect became more clear to me. When I entered the eighth grade I was a completely different person from seventh grade. Unlike the previous year, I lost all interest in trying to do my best in school. I paid less attention in class which caused my grades to drop drastically, and I was not respectful to my teachers. These actions caused me to lose a lot of my privileges throughout that school year. My history of not getting into trouble also changed that
Throughout my life, I have met countless role models (supervisors, co-workers, teachers, coaches, my parents) who push me harder and harder every single day so that I will succeed beyond belief in the changing world of today. Respect is also holding you up to an expectation that gets tougher and tougher because I am pushing myself harder. I will always have respect for all today, tomorrow, and the future
Proper respect for others begins by a person respecting their self. Respect is developed by expressing honor, leadership, value, and trust in a person. If everyone respects everyone someday, the world will become a seventh heaven. It is important to be respectful for safety, to abide by the law, because children are influenced by their elders’ actions, and because God says so. Motivation from peers can help a person realize there is always room to improve the level of respect a person exhibits. Respect was, is, and always will be a positive attribute for everyone to strive for in their lives.
Throughout my middle school and high school years I always put my grades first! I felt like that was something I would always have within myself. My
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Between my parents and my upbringing in the church, I grew up being taught that respect for others was of the utmost importance, especially respect for those in a higher position than me. Additionally, my job as a taekwondo instructor highly emphasizes the essentiality for respecting others. Therefore, it comes as a shock to me that my score was so low, and I fell in such a low percentile. The results of this assessment motivate me to be more aware of others. Now, and once I get out in the business world, I hope to show all my peers and elders respect. Life is too fragile to show disrespect and sacrifice another's self-esteem, and unfortunately in some cases, another's
Respect is important; however the most influential values I learned were kindness and the power of knowledge. As a kid, I was taught to work hard and have fun later; we were not allowed to leave the house to party or go out unless we had all our homework done. This meant learning to think critically and efficiently in order to do great work in a small amount of time. My parents dropped out of college so that they could give my sisters and I opportunities they didn't have, for this reason I have learned the value of har...
Respecting others is also another important aspect of your life because if you respect others they will respect you and more than likely you will become friends. Respect is obeying in class and not being rowdy in the hallway. It is the respect of their ideas and what they stand for. Respect is what brings people together, and if it is not used, it is what can tear people and families apart. Respecting your parents is very important in your life, respecting your parents can be doing something they tell you, like washing the ...
“Fairness does not mean everyone gets the same. It means they get what they need in order to be successful” (Rick Riordan). As a society we should help people in need even if it seems unfair, but with fairness comes harm, and without fairness comes harm as well. I believe that if an individual needs help and is willing to better him or herself, then we have a moral obligation to help them despite of who they are. It may not seem fair that a homeless person gets special benefits, but it is the right thing to do to help them get back on their feet and back into society.
Respect is a concept that everyone wants. You have to learn how to get it, keep it, and more importantly lose it. Once you earn respect you can rather keep it or lose it. It all depends on you and how bad you want it. To earn respect you have to give respect.
One value of having respect is that people see you differently. They see you as someone who is responsible and someone who can get things done, and that is a great feeling. Nevertheless having more respect also has challenges. When people have more respect for you they start to have higher expectations. With having higher expectations from someone they start to not expect anything less than their expectations.
The second form of respect is the respect of property. This includes anything from writing on a desk at school to stealing from a department store. Property, whether it is the school's, a company's, a stranger's, or a friends, should always be respected. Respect means taking that extra few seconds to drive the speed limit so as not to hit anyone or anything. It means not smashing a pumpkin at Halloween just for fun. It means not throwing that piece of trash on the ground. That is respect.
Respect is an important cultural tool that allows relationships to exist and people to intercommunicate peacefully. While we experience respect everyday it is a much more difficult concept to understand. The hard part of respect is the question of why we do it. This is especially tricky when realizing that it comes in a variety of forms and changes with social and cultural distinction. For example inter-gang respect will present itself differently then respect between work colleges in the language and actions it is expressed in.
They always told me to respect others no matter who they were, if I knew them or not, it 's a sign of respect from me and to the other person. It will show that I did grow up with a good education and it will also talk good about my parents. They always told me and kept reminding me that actions speak louder than words, to always show something that I was made of and not something that I 'm not. Hearing other people out, it shows your interests or even if you 're not, but try to show it because it 's showing respect to that person. Being respectful is a big part of me, I can never forget that, because if I want to be respected, I respect other people, to treat them the same way as I want to be treated, even if I think that I 'm not going to receive it back, and if I don 't, it shows that I 'm the bigger person. I guess that showing gratitude was one of the first thing that my parents showed me when I was younger, I always remember when I would receive something they would whisper in my ear or tell me to say "thank you" same thing if I wanted something, to say "please". To respect myself and not let others take
School, in essence, functions as a ladder to the future. The farther up the ladder a person goes, the more prepared for real life he will find himself. Respect is one of the keys to getting up the ladder and succeeding in many aspects of life. I grew up respecting my elders: whether it was my grandparents or the librarian, I have always had respect. The regard I have developed for teachers has come from knowing that I will need their help to make it through school and I can only get it by being respectful and polite.
The second value that my parents have taught me is respect. They taught me to treat others with respect and to treat others the way you want to be treated. This shaped my life in tremendous ways. It made me learn how to have manners and kept me out of trouble as a kid. If I was respectful to my teachers and friends then I would grow up to be well mannered. This ended up in me respecting my country by being patriotic.