Relationships
499 quotes: 79 by Keith Craft, 420 from other voices.
Other voices on Relationships
- The ideal of friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.
- The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
- The key to success is letting the relationships in your life grow to the highest levels they possibly can . . . not putting yourself first in life and remembering that the more you give away, the more you have.
- The Lord gives us friends to push us to our potential — and enemies to push us beyond it.
- The man who cannot forgive destroys a bridge which he will have to cross, because every person needs forgiveness.
- The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them.
- The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- The more respect you give to others, the more you earn.
- The most amiable people are those who least wound the self-love of others.
- The most important person is the one you are with in this moment.
- The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.
- The most precious gift you can give someone is the gift of your time and attention.
- The most skilful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
- The most useful person in the world today is the man or woman who knows how to get along with other people.
- The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
- The only way for us to help ourselves is to help others and to listen to each other's stories.
- The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working.Albert EinsteinSourced
- The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.
- The question was once put to him, how we ought to behave to our friends; and the answer he gave was, "As we should wish our friends to behave to us.
- The reason why so few persons are agreeable in conversation is that every one thinks more about what he shall say than about what others are saying, and because one cannot well be a good listener when one is eager to speak.
- The reason why we have two ears and only one mouth is so we might listen more and talk less.
- The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt.Rollo MaySourced
- The richer we have become materially, the poorer we become morally and spiritually. We have learned to fly in the air like birds and swim in the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers.
- The right to be respected is won by respecting others.
- The scholar without good-breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic; the soldier, a brute; and every man disagreeable.
- The synergy of a group is as important, if not more important, than the talent of the individuals.
- The truly wise man or woman will recognize no one as an enemy.
- The world is dying for want, not of good preaching, but of good hearing.
- There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.
- There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.
- There cannot be a greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
- There is a difference between listening and waiting for your turn to speak.
- There is no escape — man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
- There is no man whose kindness we may not some time want, or by whose malice we may not some time suffer.
- There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.
- There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.Fred RogersSourced
- There isn’t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren’t really living without it.
- There’s someone around you who looks up to you. They may be struggling, full of doubt or afraid. You can change their life with four words. “I believe in you”. Said at the right time, those are the most powerful words in the world.
- They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it.
- Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.