Relationships
499 quotes: 79 by Keith Craft, 420 from other voices.
Other voices on Relationships
- Five years from now, you’re the same person except for the people you’ve met and the books you’ve read.
- For all right judgment of any man or thing it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.
- Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.
- Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.
- Friendship is not about whom you know the longest. It is about who came and never left.
- Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their heart but by giving his own.
- Friendships are discovered rather than made.
- Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
- Good Manners may in Seven Words be found: Forget Yourself and think of Those Around.
- Hail! ye small sweet courtesies of life, for smooth do ye make the road of it, like grace and beauty which beget inclinations to love at first sight: 'tis ye who open the door and let the stranger in.
- Harmony is, perhaps, the greatest builder of team spirit.
- He must mingle with the world that desires to be useful.
- He surely is most in need of another’s patience, who has none of his own.
- He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.
- He who requires much from himself and little from others, will keep himself from being the object of resentment.
- Hearing is listening to what is said. Listening is hearing what isn't said.
- Honesty is a very expensive gift. Don’t expect it from cheap people.
- How deeply you touch another life is how rich your life is.
- How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.
- How people treat other people is a direct reflection of how they feel about themselves.
- How we treat other people changes them, but even more so, how we treat other people changes us.
- How we treat others is a reflection of how we think about ourselves.
- I am a man; I count nothing human foreign to me.
- I defeat my enemies when I make them my friends.
- I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.
- I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
- I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.
- I used to want to fix people, but now I just want to be with them.
- If a man does not make new acquaintances as he passes through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.
- If someone shows you who they really are, believe them.
- If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.
- If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can’t survive.
- If we do not understand our fellow-creatures we shall never love them.
- If we don’t understand people, we don’t understand business.
- If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
- If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.
- If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.
- If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love.
- If you want enemies, excel others; if friends, let others excel you.