#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

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

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

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

Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are. ↗

— Howard Hughes

#cancel #concession #consent #never #once

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. ↗

— Helen Keller

#creep #feels #impulse #never #soar

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#feel #inferior #make #without #you

What consenting adults do behind closed doors is not my business. ↗

— Shelley Berkley

#business #closed #consenting #consenting adults #doors