Set Firm Boundaries Quotes
You get what you tolerate. The man who draws clear lines, and holds them, teaches the world exactly how he is to be treated. This Influence path holds history's firmest quotes on boundaries and self-respect. Scroll through and put them to work.
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“Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.”
“You can and should set your own limits and clearly articulate them. This takes courage, but it is also liberating and empowering, and often earns you new respect.”
“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”
“When you say 'yes' to others, make sure you are not saying 'no' to yourself.”
“Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.”
“He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.”
“The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.”
“Boundaries define us. They define what is me and what is not me.”
“What you allow is what will continue.”
“One of the most important ways to manifest integrity is to be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so, we build the trust of those who are present.”
“Please all, and you will please none.”
“You get what you tolerate.”
“Don't tell me what they said about me. Tell me why they were so comfortable saying it to you.”
“The only people who get upset about you setting boundaries are the ones who benefited from you having none.”
“You cannot hang out with negative people and expect to live a positive life.”
“Leaders get what they create and what they allow.”
“He who is silent is taken to agree.”
“Cutting people off doesn't have limits. Family can get cut off too if they are causing you stress.”
“Never make a priority out of anyone that only makes you an option.”
“What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.”
“Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves even when we risk disappointing others.”
“Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.”
“The only way to win with a toxic person is not to play.”
“You never regret being kind.”
“No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.”
“Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.”
“The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.”
“If someone disrespects you once, it's their fault. If they disrespect you twice, it's yours.”
“No is a complete sentence.”
“You don't have to set yourself on fire to keep others warm.”
“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”
“He who defends everything defends nothing.”
“A person's respect for you is directly related to the boundaries you uphold.”
“To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.”
“Boundaries are the distance at which I can love you and me simultaneously.”
“Your boundaries are your business. Those who get angry at them are the ones who benefited from you having none.”
“We teach people how to treat us.”
