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Quotes About Respect

KEY CONCEPT: Connecting begins when the other person feels valued.
~ John C. Maxwell
Tell them how much you appreciate them.
~ John C. Maxwell
The one thing you need to know about teamwork is that there is more than one thing you need to know about teamwork.
~ John C. Maxwell
The respect that leadership must have requires that one's ethics be without question. A leader not only stays above the line between right and wrong, he stays well clear of the 'gray areas.
~ John C. Maxwell
It's been said that great people talk about ideas, average people talk about themselves, and small people talk about others. That's what gossip does. It makes people small. There really is no upside to gossip. It diminishes the person being talked about. It diminishes the person who is saying unkind things about others, and it even diminishes the listener. That's why you should avoid not only spreading gossip but also being a recipient of it.
~ John C. Maxwell
Or as Mike Otis put it, "Business goes where it wants to, but it stays where it's appreciated."20
~ John C. Maxwell
Siendo un líder de nivel intermedio en una organización, su habilidad para mantener la autoridad que le han dado depende completamente de su fidelidad para servir a las personas que le dieron esa autoridad. De la misma forma, usted debe cuidarse de intentar avanzar a expensas de su líder. Y sería sabio no tener una conversación de «si yo estuviera a cargo» con otro miembro del personal. Si usted tiene problemas con sus líderes, hable con ellos.
~ John C. Maxwell
People don't learn from people they don't value.
~ John C. Maxwell
Every human being has value, and every player on a team adds value to the team in some way.
~ John C. Maxwell
our goal should be to treat others better than they treat us
~ John C. Maxwell
the Mackenzies regarded all this foolishness with the deepest respect, as if it had some genuine significance. They may have suffered from an indiscriminate sense of the past or from an inability to understand that the past plays no part in our happiness.
~ John Cheever
Fellatio is the nicest thing one human being can do for another.
~ John Cheever
Good writing tends to present evidence rather than judgments. When the evidence is well presented, the reader's judgments will agree with those implicit in the writing. But nothing is more disastrous to the communication between writer and reader than a series of implicit judgments with which the reader cannot agree or which he finds to be simply silly or for which he is given no evidence he can respect.
~ John Ciardi
Genuinely good manners are, after all, essentially a way of moderating one's own egotism, often in the service of considering the egos of others. Even if it's done mainly for show, it's still a start.
~ John Cleese
It was not fair and therefore unworthy of my respect. It was as simple as that.
~ John Cleese
The problem was that I carried around with me a tendency to feel that other people's respect for me would vanish if what I did was second rate. And while I accept that this "perfectionism" is likely to stimulate the production of better work, it doesn't, unfortunately, go hand in hand with a relaxed and happy attitude to life.
~ John Cleese
Genuinely good manners are, after all, essentially a way of moderating one's own egotism, often in the service of considering the egos of others.
~ John Cleese
So "borrow" an idea from someone you admire—an idea that really appeals to you personally.
~ John Cleese
learning from something or someone you admire is not stealing. It's called "being influenced by.
~ John Cleese
Genuinely good manners are, after all, essentially a way of moderating one's own egotism, often in the service of considering the egos of others. Even if it's done mainly for show, it's still a start. It
~ John Cleese
In life if you can't have the mind to tolerates others you will find life so difficult to survive.
~ Unknown
We cannot beg someone to stay if they want to leave. We have to admit that LOVE doesn't give us the license to own a person.
~ Unknown
Don't expect your girl to play her role, when you have other girls auditioning for her part.
~ Unknown
Being with someone that doesn't treat you right isn't love, it's stupidity.
~ Unknown