COACH'S CORNER
March 2008
"Respect"
First I want to remind you of the core ideals that I shared with you last month TRUSTWORTHINESS, RESPECT, RESPONSIBILITY, FAIRNESS, CARING and CITIZENSHIP. This month I want to share with you what I was able to find on the word Respect.
Once we establish ourselves as trustworthy to those around us, we can then move into the area of gaining respect from those individuals. This respect is critical to the success of any relationship or successful team. Without mutual respect the core value of Trustworthiness is ripped at its base and makes moving on to the other core ideals impossible.
I challenge you to read what is written here about respect and last months on being trustworthy; use them in your day to day relationships and within our team. These absolutes about will help you and those around you succeed beyond all expectations.
Next month I will share with you about our Responsibility to each other.
RESPECT
The "Golden Rule" – (this idea is found in all religions and ethical societies)
- Treat others as you want to be treated
- The only people you should try to get even with are those who have helped you.
- If you were somebody else, would you want to be friends with you?
- When you throw a little mud, you lose a little ground.
- Pick your friends, but not to pieces.
- The only way to have a friend is to be one. – Emerson
- A smile is as contagious as a yawn, and remembered more fondly when it’s gone.
- We were born with two hands – one with which to receive and the other with which to give. Billy Graham.
- The measure of a man is not how tall he is, but how much his neighbors respect him.
- People who live by the Golden Rule today never have to apologize for their actions tomorrow.
Courtesy – (respect for and consideration of others.)
- Sir, I will treat you as a gentleman, not because you are one, but because I am one.
- Good humor is goodness and wisdom combined. Don’t joke at the expense of others.
- Some people insist on having the best of everything….except manners.
- Some people are like porcupines – they have their good points but you can’t get near them.
- Big people talk about ideas; little people talk about other people.
- No one wants to steal your troubles. No one can steal your good deeds and behavior.
- Good manners are what enable a person to wait at the counter patiently and quietly for service….while the blabbermouth gets all the service.
- Life is not so short; there is always time for courtesy. – Ralph Waldo Emerson.
- The measure of a truly great man is the courtesy with which he treats lesser men.
- Be courteous to everyone. You never know who might show up on the jury.
Tolerance and Acceptance – (the ability to endure others and/or their actions even though there may be vast disagreement in their beliefs.)
- Real friends are those who, when you’ve made a fool of yourself, don’t feel you’ve done a permanent job: be so with others.
- Friendship consists of forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives
- The ethical duty is to TREAT EVERYONE WITH RESPECT – not to respect everyone in the sense that we hold all people in high esteem or admire them.
- Where the heart is willing it will find a thousand ways, but where it is unwilling it will find a thousand excuses.
- Judge others on their character, abilities, and conduct, not on such matters as race, religion, gender, where they live, how they dress or how much money they have.
- It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- The best way to get the last word in is to apologize.
- Intolerance, prejudice, and discrimination are disrespectful.
- Quarrels wouldn’t last long if the fault were only on one side.
- You can complain because the rosebushes have thorns….or you can rejoice because the thorns have roses.
- Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Non-Violence – (to agree or disagree agreeably)
- A person is never in worse company than when he flies into a rage and is beside himself.
- Always forgive your enemies – it sure aggravates them.
- Resolve disagreements, respond to insults and deal with anger peacefully and without violence.
- Temper gets most of us into trouble; pride keeps us there.
- DO NOT use threats or physical force to get what you want or to express anger.
- Forgiveness is like sunshine after a rainy day.
- If we would read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility - Longfellow.
- If you really want the last word in an argument, try saying "You’re absolutely right".
- You’re right to swing your fist stops where my nose begins.
- You can’t be hurt by the words you don’t say.
- Swallowing angry words is a lot easier than having to eat them
- We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody’s weakness.
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