Relationships
499 quotes: 79 by Keith Craft, 420 from other voices.
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- This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects, for it redoubleth joys and cutteth griefs in halves.
- Those who trust us educate us.
- To be loved but not known is superficial.
- To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.George MacDonaldSourced
- To discover blindspots, build an inner circle that will give you honest feedback.
- To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
- To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
- To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
- Train your mind to see in all people, what they do not see in themselves. Begin to treat every person you come in contact with as the most important person in the world. Look at them with new awareness.
- Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
- Treat everyone you meet as if they have infinite value because in God’s eyes they do
- True friends have no solitary joy or sorrow.
- True politeness is perfect ease and freedom. It simply consists in treating others just as you love to be treated yourself.
- Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.
- Trust is built with consistency.
- Trust is earned, respect is given, and loyalty is demonstrated. Betrayal of any one of those is to lose all three.
- Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they're doing it because they care about the team.
- Trust is the easiest thing in the world to lose, and the hardest thing in the world to get back.
- Trust is the glue in relationships and organizations.
- Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
- Trust is the glue that holds everything together.
- Trust is the highest form of human motivation.
- Trust men, and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
- Trust no man as a friend till you have tried him.
- Truth is the band of union and the basis of human happiness. Without this virtue there is no reliance upon language, no confidence in friendship, no security in promises and oaths.
- Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.
- Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.
- We are interested in others, when they are interested in us.
- We are made for co-operation, like feet, like hands, like eyelids, like the rows of the upper and lower teeth. To act against one another, then, is contrary to nature; and it is acting against one another to be vexed and to turn away.
- We are more sociable, and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect.
- We can agree to disagree, but we don’t need to be disagreeable.
- We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellowmen; and along those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.
- We can't expect to solve problems if all we do is tear each other down. You can disagree with a certain policy without demonizing the person who espouses it.
- We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them, because we hate them.
- We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.
- We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.
- We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
- We hurt people by being too busy. Too busy to notice their needs. Too busy to drop that note of comfort or encouragement or assurance of love. Too busy to listen when someone needs to talk. Too busy to care.
- We judge ourselves by our intentions. And others by their actions.
- We make each other better by loving each other, by lifting each other, by protecting, nurturing, supporting and listening to each other. There is no growth without community.