Quotes About Respect

We might as well be children—babes—facing our mother, and this Mother can do far worse than beat us.

In my day, girls jumped when a Wise One said jump, and continued jumping until they were told to stop. As I am still alive, it is still my day. Need I make myself clearer? - Sorilea

Being polite to a person is not a sign of respect for them, Pevara Sedai," Emarin said. "It is merely a sign of a good upbringing and a balanced nature.

Too often we honor swagger and bluster and wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others.

One day Nagle paid him the highest compliment by saying, "When you die no one will ever find your body.

A leader must be friendly, approachable, and accessible but ought not to allow too much familiarity. After all, he's still the boss. It may sound stuffy, but a leader has to maintain his dignity, another old-fashioned notion. He must be cautious about the activities he agrees to join.

Leaders can—and, when necessary, must—level tough criticism at individuals, but due regard for their dignity requires doing it in private, not adding embarrassment and humiliation to the equation. Criticism, done privately, is far more likely to bring about constructive change. "Praise in public, criticize in private," as the saying goes.

To quote President Harry Truman, "Always be nice to all the people who can't talk back to you. I can't stand a man or woman who bawls out underlings to satisfy

A successful leader, and especially one leading change, treats each member of his team with respect and dignity.

take people one at a time, based on their individual qualities and never as a member of a group. That led, he said, to hatred and bias; that was what the Nazis had done.

As I said earlier, for the first several months under Obama, it took a lot of discipline to sit quietly at the table as everyone from the president on down took shots at Bush and his team. Sitting there, I would often think to myself, Am I invisible? During those excoriations, there was never any acknowledgment that I had been an integral part of that earlier team.

When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to other things.

Aretê implies a respect for the wholeness or oneness of life, and a consequent dislike of specialization. It implies a contempt for efficiency—or rather a much higher idea of efficiency, an efficiency which exists not in one department of life but in life itself.

Taking the time to ask your prospect the correct questions and carefully listen to the answers shows respect for them, and gives you a clearer idea of what they want.

There's no hope for a family that quarrels all the time.

Purpose to develop an agreeable spirit. I'm not suggesting that you have to agree with everything everyone says. I'm simply saying that you're not obligated to correct them! No one has appointed you Earth's guardian of truth and accuracy. One

People who are aware that they are making contestable assumptions are much more likely to recognize that reasonable people of goodwill can, in fact, disagree—even about matters of profound human and moral significance.

Not even hatred can corrode real honor.

If you're ignorant, it's easy to be bullied.

Surfers learn to respect the change in the power of the waves and water with each change of season.

What he is learning will serve him for life, and he seems to have gained a new respect for the power of money.

Your mom and dad lecture a lot. My dad is quiet and a man of few words.

rich dad walked out of his office, said nothing, and signaled with his hand for me to enter.

You made me wait and don't show me any respect. I'm only a little boy, but I deserve to be treated better.