Relationships
499 quotes: 79 by Keith Craft, 420 from other voices.
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- If you want to be a good conversationalist, be a good listener. To be interesting, be interested.
- If you want to be loved, be lovable.
- If you wish to be held in esteem, you must associate only with those who are estimable.
- If you wish to persuade me, you must think my thoughts, feel my feelings, and speak my words.
- If you wish to please people, you must begin by understanding them.
- If you would be interesting, be interested... if you would be loved, be loveable; if you would be helped, be helpful.
- If you would cease to dislike a man, try to get nearer his heart.
- If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.
- If you're the smartest one in your group, you need to get a new group.
- Imperfections are not inadequacies; they are reminders that we’re all in this together.
- In a networked world, trust is the most important currency.
- In all societies, it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest; not that the highest are always the best, but because, if disgusted there, we can at any time descend; but if we begin with the lowest, to ascend is impossible.
- In companionship with the good, growing natures will always find their best nourishment; while companionship with the bad will only be fruitful in mischief.
- In life a friend may be often found and lost; but an old friend never can be found, and Nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost.
- In life, it's not where you go, it's who you travel with.
- In most quarrels there is a fault on both sides. A quarrel may be compared to a spark, which cannot be produced without a flint, as well as steel. Either of them, may hammer on wood forever; no fire will follow.
- In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions.
- Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.
- Infinite is the help man can yield to man.
- Inflict not on an enemy every injury in your power, for he may afterwards become your friend.
- Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.
- Interest yourself in others and you will be too busy to indulge in self-love.
- It is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends, without which the world is but a wilderness.
- It is better to be lonely than allow people who are not going anywhere keep you from your destiny.
- It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.
- It is better to make one's self acceptable than to make one's self important.
- It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.
- It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
- It is inevitable if you enter into relationships with people on a regular basis that you will grow to be like them.
- It is more shameful to be distrustful of our friends than to be deceived by them.
- It is much safer to reconcile an enemy than to conquer him; victory may deprive him of his poison, but reconciliation of his will.
- It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.
- It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.
- It's not how many friends you can count, it's how many of those you can count on.
- It’s the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter.
- I've always believed that a lot of the trouble in the world would disappear if we were talking to each other instead of about each other.
- Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
- Keep company with the humble, with the devout, and with the virtuous; and confer with them of things that edify.
- Keep good company, and you shall be of the number.
- Keep your friendships in repair, and then see if you do not find your horizon broadened, your life sweetened, and the weary weight of this sad old world lightened.