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Relationships Quotes by Stephen Covey
- Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Psychosomatic illnesses often are the reincarnation of cumulative resentment,…
- Nothing is more exciting and bonding in relationships than creating together.
- One of the best ways to educate our hearts is to look at our interaction with other people, because our relationships with others are fundamentally…
- The 'Inside-Out' approach to personal and interpersonal effectiveness means to start first with self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of…
- Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.
- Whatever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new…
- When trust is high, the dividend you receive is like a performance multiplier, elevating and improving every dimension of your organization and your life.... In…
- Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them
- Innocent pleasures in moderation can provide relaxation for the body and mind and can foster family and other relationships. But pleasure, per se, offers no…
- It is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
- 'Efficient' scheduling and control of time are often counterproductive. The efficiency focus creates expectations that clash with the opportunities to develop rich relationships, to meet…
- All broken relationships can be traced back to broken agreements
- Quality relationships are built on principles, especially the principle of trust.
- Would you not agree that relationships are built on trust? Would you not also agree that most individuals think more in terms of "me-my wants,…
- Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
- A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.
- ...people have character strength but they lack communication skills, and that undoubtedly affects the quality of relationships as well.
- Our greatest joy and our greatest pain comes in our relationships with others.
- Want to improve your relationships? See love as a verb rather than as a feeling?
- Little kindness and courtesies are so important. In relationships, the little things are the big things.
- Trust is the glue in relationships and organizations
More Relationships Quotes
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about the relationships… — J. J. Abrams
- My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never… — Lee Atwater
- Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with… — Marcus Aurelius
- Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised,… — Jane Austen
- All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits… — Diane Ackerman
- As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the… — Diane Ackerman
- To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure. — Honore de Balzac
- I have advice for people - period - who are in unhealthy relationships: Follow your heart. It will get you to where… — Erykah Badu
- Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war;… — James A. Baldwin