Quotes About Respect

The greater God's revealed glory, the greater and swifter the judgment of irreverence!

Spoiled children lack a true respect for authority, especially when they do not get what they want when they want it. Their lack of reverence for authority sets them up to be easily offended with God.

Other things are probably better off left alone. Like a dead mouse at the back of a cupboard.

His position, like so many of his ilk, was one of uncontested and unearned respect.

Whenever I look at Edna O'Brien," continued Mr. Denby-Denby, "I get the impression that she wants to put every man she meets across her knee and give them a good spanking until they show her the proper respect. Oh, to be the bare bottom beneath that alabaster palm!

He wore the headdress of a Red Indian and was making the sounds to match, a terrible howling that would have given a deaf man a headache.

Want of reverence of the Word is the ground of all disorders that are in the heart, life, conversation, and in Christian communion.

To add value to others, one must first value others.

When people respect you as a person, they admire you. When they respect you as a friend, they love you. When they respect you as a leader, they follow you.

The goal of confrontation should be to help, not to humiliate.

As people gain more authority, they often develop a lack of patience in listening to those under them. A deaf ear is the first indication of a closed mind.

When people follow a leader because they have to, they will do only what they have to. People don't give their best to leaders they like least. They give reluctant compliance, not commitment. They may give their hands but certainly not their heads or hearts.

Being in power is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. If

If you pair excellence with humility, people not only won't run over you, they will respect you.

We need to decide how we want to be treated. Then we need to begin treating others in that manner.

True leadership cannot be awarded, appointed, or assigned. It comes only from influence, and that cannot be mandated. It must be earned. The only thing a title can buy is a little time—either to increase your level of influence with others or to undermine it.

how we view a person is reflected by how we treat a person.

When you like people and treat them like individuals who have value, you begin to develop influence with them. You develop trust.

If you lead a team, start asking questions and really listening. Start valuing the contributions of your teammates ahead of your own. And remember that when the best idea wins, so does the entire team.

You lose the respect of the best when you don't deal properly with the worst.

The highest compliment you can give someone is to ask them their opinion.

THE QUESTION I MUST ASK MYSELF: DO I TREAT OTHERS BETTER THAN THEY TREAT ME?

Believe in the value of others. Carlisle said, "A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats the little man." The value you place on people determines whether you are a motivator or a manipulator of men.

Clearly, if leaders have a strong set of ethical values and live them out, then people will respect them, not just their position. Immature leaders try to use their position to drive high performance.