Relationships
499 quotes: 79 by Keith Craft, 420 from other voices.
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- Society is the atmosphere of souls; and we necessarily imbibe from it something which is either infectious or healthful.
- Sooner or later we realize that we will only be offered imperfect people to love.
- Speak in such a way that others love to listen to you. Listen in such a way that others love to speak to you.
- Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.
- Staying vulnerable is a risk we have to take if we want to experience connection.
- Stop expecting others to show you love, acceptance, commitment, and respect when you don’t even show that to yourself.
- Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.
- Success always takes help. Failure is done alone.
- Surround yourself with people only who are going to take you higher.
- Surround yourself with people whose definition of you is not based on your history, but your destiny.
- Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.
- Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are; if I know what it is with which you occupy yourself, I know what you may become.
- Thank you, always say thank you; it’s the greatest gift you can give someone.
- The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee, and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.
- The average person is more interested in their own name than in all the other names in the world put together.
- The basis for friendship, relationship, partnership – isn’t proximity or time spent together – it’s values.
- The best gifts to give: To your friend, loyalty; To your enemy, forgiveness; To your boss, service; To a child, a good example; To your parents, gratitude and devotion; To your mate, love and faithfulness; To all men and women, charity.
- The best minute you spend is the one you invest in people.
- The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
- The best way to raise any one is to join with him in an effort whereby both you and he are raised by each helping the other.
- The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
- The business of business is relationships; the business of life is human connection.Robin SharmaCommonly attributed
- The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust.
- The clearest message that we get from this 75-year study is this: Good relationships keep us happier and healthier. Period.
- The company in which you will improve most will be least expensive to you.
- The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.Stephen R. CoveyCommonly attributed
- The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
- The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
- The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.
- The electric telegraph will never be a substitute for the face of a man, with his soul in it, encouraging another man to be brave and true.
- The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.
- The first duty of love is to listen.
- The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.
- The fundamental law of human beings is interdependence. A person is a person through other persons.
- The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
- The greatest gift you can give someone is your time, your attention, your love, your concern.
- The greatest thing you can do for another human being is to include them in your circle of love.
- The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.
- The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.
- The human heart is like heaven; the more angels the more room.