Quotes About Respect

Mocking a woman is like drinking too much wine. It may be fun for a short time, but the hangover is hell.

Mom would kill me if I showed my navel.

When we fail to set boundaries and hold people accountable, we feel used and mistreated. This is why we sometimes attack who they are, which is far more hurtful than addressing a behavior or a choice.

You cannot shame or belittle people into changing their behaviors.

How can we expect people to put value on our work when we don't value ourselves enough to set and hold uncomfortable boundaries?

I am responsible for holding you accountable in a respectful and productive way. I'm not responsible for your emotional reaction to that accountability

If we want people to fully show up, to bring their whole selves including their unarmored, whole hearts—so that we can innovate, solve problems, and serve people—we have to be vigilant about creating a culture in which people feel safe, seen, heard, and respected.

And if our faith asks us to find the face of God in everyone we meet, that should include the politicians, media, and strangers on Twitter with whom we most violently disagree. When we desecrate their divinity, we desecrate our own, and we betray our faith.

Only when diverse perspectives are included, respected, and valued can we start to get a full picture of the world:

When we engage in dehumanizing rhetoric or promote dehumanizing images, we diminish our own humanity in the process. When we reduce Muslim people to terrorists or Mexicans to "illegals" or police officers to pigs, it says nothing at all about the people we're attacking. It does, however, say volumes about who we are and the degree to which we're operating in our integrity.

Generosity is not a free pass for people to take advantage of us, treat us unfairly, or be purposefully disrespectful and mean.

The heart of compassion is really acceptance. The better we are at accepting ourselves and others, the more compassionate we become. Well, it's difficult to accept people when they are hurting us or taking advantage of us or walking all over us. This research has taught me that if we really want to practice compassion, we have to start by setting boundaries and holding people accountable

When we hear people referred to as animals or aliens, we should immediately wonder, "Is this an attempt to reduce someone's humanity so we can get away with hurting them or denying them basic human rights?

You share with people who've earned the right to hear your story. ...You have to earn the right to hear my story. It's an honor to hold space for me when I'm in shame.

If you can't say it to me in front of my kids, don't say it.

Setting boundaries and holding people accountable is a lot more work than shaming and blaming.

When we engage in dehumanizing rhetoric or promote dehumanizing images, we diminish our own humanity in the process.

Practicing self-love means learning how to trust ourselves, to treat ourselves with respect, and to be kind and affectionate toward ourselves.

We all need to be seen and honored in the same way that we all need to breathe.

Love: We cultivate love when we allow our most vulnerable and powerful selves to be deeply seen and known, and when we honor the spiritual connection that grows from that offering with trust, respect, kindness, and affection. Love is not something we give or get; it is something that we nurture and grow, a connection that can only be cultivated between two people when it exists within each one of them—we can only love others as much as we love ourselves.

It's simple but transformative: Clear is kind. Unclear is unkind.

Other people's emotions are not our jobs. We can't both serve people and try to control their feelings.

stop dehumanizing people and start looking them in the eye when we speak to them. If we don't have the energy or time to do that, we should stay at home.

you cannot shame or belittle people into changing their behavior