Quotes about Respect
PRINCIPLE 5 Let the other person save face.
— Dale Carnegie
Seven Rules For Making Your Home Life Happier • Rule 1: Don't nag. • Rule 2: Don't try to make your partner over. • Rule 3: Don't criticize. • Rule 4: Give honest appreciation. • Rule 5: Pay little attentions. • Rule 6: Be courteous. • Rule 7: Read a good book on the sexual side of marriage.
— Dale Carnegie
PRINCIPLE 1—Become genuinely interested in other people. PRINCIPLE 2—Smile. PRINCIPLE 3—Remember that a person's name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language. PRINCIPLE 4—Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves. PRINCIPLE 5—Talk in terms of the other person's interests. PRINCIPLE 6—Make the other person feel important-and do it sincerely.
— Dale Carnegie
Call attention to people's mistakes indirectly.
— Dale Carnegie
Carnegie wanted to praise his assistants even on his tombstone. He wrote an epitaph for himself which read: "Here lies one who knew how to get around him men who were cleverer than himself.
— Dale Carnegie
Here lies one who knew how to get around him men who were cleverer than himself.
— Dale Carnegie
It was said of Emerson that he was always willing to listen to any man, no matter how humble his station, because he felt he could learn something from every man he met.
— Dale Carnegie
Who can resist being around a person who suspends his thoughts in order to value yours?
— Dale Carnegie
Show respect for the other person's opinions. Never say, 'You're wrong.
— Dale Carnegie
Tolerance is not indifference, but a generous regard and even provision for those who differ from us on points we deeply care about.
— Dallas Willard
Treasures are directly connected to our spirit, or will, and thus to our dignity as persons. It is, for example, very important for parents to respect the "treasure space" of children. It lies right at the center of the child's soul, and great harm can be done if it is not respected and even fostered.
— Dallas Willard
Most families would be healthier and happier if their members treated one another with the respect they would give to a perfect stranger. C. S. Lewis's discussion of storage, familial love, is endlessly instructive on this point and is required reading for all who intend to have a decent family life. He notes that he has been far more impressed by the bad manners of parents to children than by those of children to parent.
— Dallas Willard