#consent

Earlier in this book I noted that one of my favorite sayings is “You get what you tolerate.” This applies in spades to your relationships. Failing to speak up about something carries the implication that you are OK with it—that you are prepared to continue tolerating it. As a companion saying goes, “Silence means consent.” If you tolerate snide or offensive remarks from your boss or colleague, the remarks will continue. If you tolerate your spouse’s lack of consideration for your feelings, it will continue. If you tolerate the disregard of people who regularly turn up late for meetings or social engagements, they will continue to keep you cooling your heels. If you tolerate your child’s lack of respect, you will continue to get no respect. Each time you tolerate a behavior, you are subtly teaching that person that it is OK to treat you that way. ↗

— Margie Warrell

#relationships #respect #tolerate #courage

By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy. ↗

— George Bancroft

#consent #crown #envy #excite #glory

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. ↗

— Albert Camus

#consent #forgiven #generously #only #share

Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion. ↗

— Albert Camus

#claim #consent #give #ideologies #lead

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#consent #depress #down #hardship #influence

Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies. ↗

— Howard Thurman

#cause #center #commitment #consent #dies

Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed. ↗

— Paul Tsongas

#based #consent #democracy #derives #fathers

Many people do not realize that where unions have bargaining rights employers cannot raise wages or improve benefit plans any more than they can reduce them without of the consent of the union. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

#bargaining #benefit #cannot #consent #employers

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. ↗

— Andre Gide

#discover #does #lands #long #long time

President Obama's decision to bypass the constitutional advice and consent of the Senate is not an isolated incident. ↗

— Chuck Grassley

#bypass #consent #constitutional #decision #incident