Quotes About Respect

It's how you treat the one that reveals how you regard the ninety-nine, because everyone is ultimately a one.

If I make deposits into an Emotional Bank Account with you through courtesy, kindness, honesty, and keeping my commitments to you, I build up a reserve. Your trust toward me becomes higher, and I can call upon that trust many times if I need to.

One of the most important commitments in a family or a business is never to bad-mouth. Always be loyal to those who are absent, if you want to retain those who are present

When you have No Deal as an option in your mind, you feel liberated because you have no need to manipulate people, to push your own agenda, to drive for what you want. You can be open. You can really try to understand the deeper issues underlying the positions.

If a person of your intelligence and competence and commitment disagrees with me, then there must be something to your disagreement that I don't understand, and I need to understand it. You have a perspective, a frame of reference I need to look at." Nonprotective interaction developed, and an unusual culture was born.

The PC principle is to always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.

As Eleanor Roosevelt observed, "No one can hurt you without your consent." In the words of Gandhi, "They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers. You can buy a person's hand, but you can't buy his heart.

Self-mastery and self-discipline are the roots of good relationships with others.

It is much more ennobling to the human spirit to let people judge themselves than to judge them. And

across—"the ability to express one's own feelings and convictions balanced with consideration for the thoughts and feelings of others.

El modo en que tratamos al «uno» revela el modo en que consideramos a los noventa y nueve restantes, porque en última instancia cada uno de ellos es «un uno».

When two people in a marriage are more concerned about getting the golden eggs, the benefits, than they are in preserving the relationship that makes them possible, they often become insensitive and inconsiderate, reflecting the little kindnesses and courtesies so important to a deep relationship. They begin to use control leavers to manipulate each other, to focus on their own needs, to justify their own position and look for evidence to show the wrongness of the other person

Listening involves patience, openness, and the desire to understand—highly developed qualities of character.

The futility of bad-mouthing, bad-thinking, put-downs, and accusation becomes very evident when they think in terms of only having a short time to live. Principles and values become more evident to everybody

It is much more ennobling to the human spirit to let people judge themselves than to judge them.

I don't want to talk, to communicate, with someone who agrees with me; I want to communicate with you because you see it differently. I value that difference.

One day I shared with him this principle of making what is important to the other person as important to you as the other person is to you.

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We not me. True greatness will be achieved through the abundant mind that works selflessly, with mutual respect, and for a mutual benefit.

Probably the most important deposit you could make would be just to listen, without judging or preaching or reading your own autobiography into what he says. Just listen and seek to understand. Let him feel your concern for him, your acceptance of him as a person.

People resent any attempt to manipulate them. In fact, if you're dealing with people you're close to, it's helpful to tell them what you're doing.

In the final analysis, effective delegation takes the emotional courage to allow, to one degree or another, others to make some mistakes on our own time, money, and good name. This courage consists of patience, self-control, faith in others and in their potential, and respect for individual differences.

There are organizations that talk a lot about the customer and then completely neglect the people that deal with the customer—the employees. The PC principle is to always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.