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Quotes About Respect

Just don't ever let it happen to you, Dolores. Let people just shit all over you. Don't you ever become some man's personal toilet that way I did.
~ Wally Lamb
father's command is a son's law!
~ Wally Lamb
Don't you ever become some man's personal toilet the way I did
~ Wally Lamb
Oh captain my captain
~ Walt Whitman
The sum of all known value and respect, I add up in you, whoever you are.
~ Walt Whitman
If you see a good deal remarkable in me I see just as much remarkable in you.
~ Walt Whitman
Welcome is every organ and attribute of me, and of any man hearty and clean, Not an inch nor a particle of an inch is vile, and none shall be less familiar than the rest.
~ Walt Whitman
I do not call one greater and one smaller, That which fills its period and place is equal to any.
~ Walt Whitman
Of the human form especially, it is so great it must never be made ridiculous . . . Exaggerations will be revenged in human physiology.
~ Walt Whitman
while they discuss I am silent, and go bathe and admire myself. Welcome is every organ and attribute of me, and of any man hearty and clean, Not an inch nor a particle of an inch is vile, and none shall be less familiar than the rest.
~ Walt Whitman
Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me. Through me the afflatus surging and surging, through me the current and index. I speak the pass-word primeval, I give the sign of democracy, By God! I will accept nothing which all cannot have their counterpart of on the same terms.
~ Walt Whitman
If you see a good deal remarkable in me I see just as much remarkable in you. Why what have you thought of yourself? Is it you then that thought yourself less?
~ Walt Whitman
First, people tolerate evil because they see some benefit to themselves,' he said. 'Then, they feed it in hope that it will turn into something else. Then, they appease it in hope that it will not turn against them. Then, they respect it because they fear it. Finally, someone has to step up and stamp it out! (...)
~ Walter Dean Myers
When another asserted something that I thought an error, I denied myself the pleasure of contradicting him.
~ Walter Isaacson
Blind respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
~ Walter Isaacson
If he was displeased, he might scream and get hopping mad and use expletives, but he wouldn't do it in a way that would totally destroy the person he was talking to. It was just his way to get the person to do a better job.
~ Walter Isaacson
people who expect deference because they have a PhD and don't want to deal with ordinary people tend to be annoying.
~ Walter Isaacson
that year. "Then, in 1983, I got the award. I had learned you had to stand up for what you believe, which Steve respected. I started getting promoted by him after that." Eventually she rose to become head of manufacturing. One day Jobs barged
~ Walter Isaacson
When you see a beautiful woman, what do you feel?" Wayne replied, "It's like when you look at a beautiful horse. You can appreciate it, but you don't want to sleep with it. You appreciate beauty for what it is." Wayne said that it is a testament to Jobs that he felt like revealing this to him.
~ Walter Isaacson
That's why I'm here to kiss the corporate ass. I don't kiss everybody's.
~ Walter Isaacson
Torvalds explained. "When people trust you, they take your advice." He also realized that leaders in a voluntary collaborative have to encourage others to follow their passion, not boss them around. "The best and most effective way to lead is by letting people do things because they want to do them, not because you want them to.
~ Walter Isaacson
A secret to being more revered than resented, he learned, was to display (at least when he could muster the discipline) a self-deprecating humor, unpretentious demeanor, and unaggressive style in conversation.
~ Walter Isaacson
So as he grew old, he was not only respected and revered by his colleagues, he was loved.
~ Walter Isaacson
Would you win the hearts of others, you must not seem to vie with them, but to admire them. Give them every opportunity of displaying their own qualifications, and when you have indulged their vanity, they will praise you in turn and prefer you above others . . . Such is the vanity of mankind that minding what others say is a much surer way of pleasing them than talking well ourselves."6
~ Walter Isaacson