#tolerate

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

I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever. ↗

— Nina Simone

#because #being #cave #economic #economic situation

There is no "slippery slope" toward loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders. ↗

— Alan K. Simpson

#american people #downward #each #first #leaders

I choose many voices to consider and reckon with, rather than just one to tolerate. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#consider #quotes #reckoning #tolerate #voice

There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best of all powers - which will not tolerate an incompetent or unworthy man to hold in his weak or wicked hands the lives and fortunes of his fellow-citizens. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

#country #fortunes #god #hands #his

I think it's so wrong to play the victim. There's too many brave women out there that just won't even tolerate it, you know? ↗

— Elisha Cuthbert

#even #i #i think #just #know

All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion. ↗

— Abdurrahman Wahid

#grasp #islam #knowing #lenient #many

The United Nations' greatest fear is that average Americans will no longer tolerate these international scandals and demand that America withdraw from the international organization. ↗

— Ginny B. Waite

#average #average americans #demand #fear #greatest

We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#government #industrial #monopolies #must #oligarchy

Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs. ↗

— William Allen White

#i #only #others #should #since