| Dignity is not circumstantial. | | | | How do you live a life of excellence and honor |
| Kotoda Yahei Toshisada | | | | without making others feel inferior? The answer lies |
| Have you ever noticed how, if a football team | | | | in respect. You have to treat them with respect, |
| develops into a dynasty, everyone wants to see | | | | even if you don't really respect their lifestyle choices |
| them get beat? This is because nobody likes to feel | | | | or their actions. This is not being hypocritical. It is |
| inferior to anyone else, and a team who has | | | | simply treating others as you would have them treat |
| practiced, worked, and grabbed hold of excellence, | | | | you. Inside, you may know that men of honor, who |
| makes those who have not, feel inferior. The same | | | | live the warrior lifestyle, deserve more respect and |
| principle applies to individuals. Those who have | | | | reverence than those who don't, but this fact |
| developed their lives to the point of excellence, make | | | | doesn't mean that you shouldn't treat others with |
| others who have not, feel inferior, unless they are | | | | respect as well. Treat everyone with a certain |
| very careful about how they carry themselves. | | | | degree of respect. |
| Noblemen discipline themselves to be dignified at all | | | | Each action [of the warrior] is performed from a |
| times. | | | | place of fundamental wisdom... |
| Matsura Seizen | | | | It is completely different from the ordinary behavior |
| The warrior should develop his life to the point of | | | | of a fool. |
| excellence, while at the same time living in such a | | | | Even if it looks the same, it is different on the inside. |
| way as to not make those who haven't feel inferior. | | | | Takuan Soho |
| Yes, this is a tall order on both accounts. It is hard | | | | Moreover, you don't have to actually respect |
| enough to live the life of the superior man who has | | | | someone in order to treat that person with respect. |
| worked to develop his character through many hours | | | | This is a fact that takes a little getting used to for |
| of discipline and training, but once you start to feel | | | | most people. You can have very little or no respect |
| that you are making progress, it can be even harder | | | | at all for someone, and yet still treat them with |
| not to make others feel inferior. You have to watch | | | | respect. No, this is not being hypocritical. This is simply |
| what you say and how you treat those who are less | | | | living according to your own standards, standards |
| inclined to live a life of honor. | | | | which require you to treat people in a certain way, |
| People hate those who make them feel their own | | | | whether they are your enemy or your best friend. |
| inferiority. | | | | You live your life by certain decorum regardless of |
| Lord Chesterfield | | | | how other people live. |
| Those who do not live by a code of honor or revere | | | | The man of principle never forgets what he is, |
| integrity and character, many times look down on | | | | because of what others are. |
| those who do. They will ridicule you for your strong | | | | Baltasar Gracian |
| beliefs in the warrior lifestyle. The warrior lifestyle | | | | Treating others with a certain amount of respect and |
| simply does not make any sense to them. When | | | | manners has nothing to do with their actions; it has |
| they hear you discuss things such as honor, respect, | | | | to do with how you have decided to live your life. |
| your code of ethics, doing right, etc., they feel as if | | | | Does everyone deserve respect and honor? No, not |
| you are talking down to them or that you feel like | | | | in my opinion. Should everyone be treated with |
| you are better than them. Nobody likes to feel | | | | respect and good manners? Absolutely. There is a |
| inferior, and they despise those who make them feel | | | | difference in what someone deserves and in how the |
| that they are not living their life to their full potential. | | | | warrior should treat them. Treating someone with |
| You cannot talk to a frog in a well about the vast | | | | respect and manners says something about you, not |
| sea; | | | | about what they deserve. What do you want your |
| He is limited to his area of space. | | | | actions to say about you? |
| A summer insect has no knowledge of snow; | | | | The warrior acts first according to his heart and his |
| It knows nothing beyond its own season. | | | | sense of righteousness. |
| Chiu Shu | | | | |