Nobody around you learns what you value from what you say you will accept. They learn it from what you actually let slide, repeatedly, without consequence. The standard was never the one you stated out loud, it was always the one you enforced.
Every time you tolerate less than what you claim to want, you teach the people around you what your word is actually worth.
Borrowed Line:
"We are what we repeatedly do."
Often attributed to Will Durant, summarizing Aristotle
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