Quotes About Respect

When we don't get acknowledgment or feel that we are giving more than we are getting out of conversations or feel talked down to, we become anxious, disrespected, and humiliated. Humble

How does one produce a climate in which people will speak up, bring up information that is safety related, and even correct superiors or those of higher status when they are about to make a mistake?

Humble Inquiry works only if the attitude behind it includes the desire to really hear what the other person says, to develop an appropriate level of empathy, and to choose a response that shows interest and curiosity.

Telling is only an investment if you know for sure that what you are telling is of value to the other person. That is why it is safest to tell only if you have been asked, rather than arrogantly deciding on your own to tell somebody something.

Telling puts the other person down. It implies that the other person does not already know what I am telling and that the other person ought to know it.

Gratuitous telling betrays three kinds of arrogance: (1) that you think you know more than the person you're telling, (2) that your knowledge is the correct knowledge, and (3) that you have the right to structure other people's experience for them.

Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.

But what Ben was doing was different. He wasn't using the information against her. He was merely trying to keep the peace.

Tell him, too," she said, "never to pluck flowers, and to think every bush may be a goddess in disguise.

A race lacking respect for women would never advance socially or politically.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

So to be patriots as not to forget we are gentlemen.

With all respect, Sahib, you have little to teach us in strength and toughness. And we do not envy you your restless spirits. Perhaps we are happier than you? But we would like our children to go to school. Of all the things you have, learning is the one we most desire for our children.

Let us forget such words, and all they mean, as Hatred, Bitterness and Rancor, Greed, Intolerance, Bigotry. Let us renew our faith and pledge to Man, his right to be Himself, and free.

le he visto trabajar estos anos y le auguraba un gran futuro en el marco ce la administración pública. Es usted cumplidor, puntual, serio, respetuoso con sus superiores, no tiene ambición y nunca toma iniciativas.

Honi soit qui mal y pense [Shame on anyone who thinks evil of it].

Humility is a virtue when you have no other.

If the life of natural things, millions of years old, does not seem sacred to us, then what can be sacred? Human vanity alone?

Simply because humankind have the power now to meddle or 'manage' or 'exercise stewardship' in every nook and cranny of the world does not mean that we have a right to do so. Even less, the obligation.

In demonstrating that humans behave with justice, tolerance, reason, love toward other forms of life, we are doing no more than demanding that humans be human -- that is, be true to the best aspects of human nature. Humans being human, therefore, cannot consider themselves morally superior to, say, bears being bear-like, eagles being eagle-like, etc.

The itch for naming things is almost as bad as the itch for possessing things. Let them and leave them alone--they'll survive for a few more thousand years, more or less, without any glorification from us.

It is vital that we avoid any hint of moral superiority in our dealings with one another in the environmental movement; if it developed into factionalism it would destroy us, as factionalism has destroyed so many other progressive movements in America.

the Mormons deserve respect for settling the most rugged, difficult as well as spectacular, terrain in the West.

Keep it like it was.