Quotes About Respect

Assertiveness is asking for what you want, turning others down, and making decisions that are right for you without anger, threats, manipulation, or fear of repercussions.

Let's be honest, you've probably encountered somebody with an opinion that made you scratch your head, to say the least. Here's the thing though: a great conversationalist can always find some common ground, can be respectful, lighthearted, curious and kind…without agreeing in the least with their conversation partner. It's all about prioritizing enjoyable human connection over the need to agree or be right.

Follow this simple rule to break out of this behavior pattern: don't share your opinion unless asked.

When you say no firmly and with confidence, people end up putting more value on your yes.

To defuse situations and maximize the illusion of respect, you need to tell people why you are asking or explain why you are telling. Giving someone a justification for your ask turns an order into a reasonable and rational request for assistance.

people are very thirsty for acknowledgment and the respect that underlies that acknowledgment.

If you want to at least appear more present, you need to look people in the eye when talking to them.

The automatic use of Du, even to strangers if they were friends of friends, was very surprising. Sie, it seemed, meant relegation to the outer darkness and people had been known to fight with swords about the matter.

Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they're doing it because they care about the team.

So many people there are so concerned about being socially conscious and environmentally aware, but they don't give a second thought to how they treat the guy washing their car or cutting their grass.

C. S. Lewis once said, "A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you.

You're as old as the land and you've never heard of sarcasm?" Conor asked. Oh, I have heard of it, the monster said, putting its huge branch hands on its hips. But people usually know better than to speak it to me.

I'll ask ye this once," the woman says, lifting the rifle again. "Am I gonna need this?" I exchange a glance with Viola. "No," I say. "No, mam," Viola says. Mam? I think. "It's like sir, bonny boy." The woman slings the rifle over her shoulder by its strap. "For if yer a-talking to a lady.

Kindness is the most important thing of all. Pity is an insult. Kindness is a miracle.

People began to live ON the earth rather than WITHIN it

I am in favour of leaving people alone, however imperfect their polity may seem. It appears to me that you must not tell other nations how to set their house in order; nor must you compel them to be happy.

If you lose a fortune, you can always earn another, he pointed out. But if you lose your good name, you can never get it back.

Call a jack a jack. Call a spade a spade. But always call a whore a lady. Their lives are hard enough, and it never hurts to be polite.

It gets tiresome being spoken to as if you are a child, even if you happen to be one.

Just handle the books gently and you'll get along fine.

You are not wise enough to fear me as I should be feared.

Feel free to call me by my first name: Master.

There's looking and there's looking. When some men look at you it's a greasy thing. It makes you want to have a bath. With other men it's nice. It helps you know you're beautiful.

Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made. Some might take offense at this way of seeing things, not understanding how a trouper views his music. They might think I degrade women. They might consider me callous, or boorish, or crude. But those people do not understand love, or music, or me.