Quotes about Respect

Speak up TODAY and say something positive. Even a tombstone will say something good about people when they are dead.

Decide that People Are Worth the Effort:

Goethe recommended, "Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.

As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "Trust men and they will be true to you: treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

You can't make the other fellow feel important in your presence if you secretly feel that he is a nobody.

One of the quickest ways to gain credibility with an individual, a group, or an audience is to borrow it from someone who already has credibility with them.

if you want people to act right toward you, you act right toward them. And many times you'll change them.

Treat them as if they are important; they will respond according to the way that you perceive them.

When you want to convert someone to your view, you go over to where he is standing, take him by the hand (mentally speaking), and guide him. You don't stand across the room and shout at him; you don't call him a dummy; you don't order him to come over to where you are. You start where he is, and work from that position. That's the only way to get him to budge.

Think the best, believe the best, and express the best in others.

KEY CONCEPT: Connecting begins when the other person feels valued.

Tell them how much you appreciate them.