Interpersonal Relationship Quotes

• 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.

  Stephen Covey

  Business, Insperational, Perfect

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• The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

  Bob Marley

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• People and relationships never stop being a work in progress

  Nora Roberts

  Relationship, Work, People

  Nora Roberts (2009). “Vision In White”, p.203, Penguin

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• Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

  Stephen Covey

  Love, Inspirational, Relationship

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.267, Simon and Schuster

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• Trust and faith bring joy to life and help relationships grow to their maximum potential.

  Joyce Meyer

  Life, Relationship, Faith

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• If I were to summarize in one sentence the single most important principle I have learned in the field of interpersonal relations, it would be this: Seek first to understand, then to be understood. This principle is the key to effective interpersonal communication.

  Stephen Covey

  Communication, Healing, Keys

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• If you're absent during my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success.

  Will Smith

  Inspiring, Trust, Inspiration

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• If you don't like yourself, you're going to have a really hard time getting along with anyone else.

  Joyce Meyer

  Relationship, Self Esteem, Hard Times

  Twitter post from Aug 22, 2012

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• A relationship means you come together to make each other better. It’s not all about you, and it’s not all about them. Its all about the relationship.
  Support them in their dreams/vision just as much as you would expect them to support you. Make each other better. Challenge each other to go beyond average. Pull out the greatness from within each other.
  Make sure they can find their biggest fan in you, and you can find yours in them.

  Trent Shelton

  Relationship, Dream, Mean

  FaceBook post by Trent Shelton from Aug 08, 2013

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• Work on your relationships... Relationships need renewal or they die.

  Bo Sanchez

  Relationship, Couple, Work

  FaceBook post by Bo Sanchez from Nov 10, 2010

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• I'm more interested in interpersonal relationships - between lovers families, siblings. That's why I write about how we treat each other.

  Terry McMillan

  Sibling, Writing, Lovers

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• Relationships don't thrive because the guilty are punished but because the innocent are merciful.

  Max Lucado

  Relationship, Punishment, Guilt

  Twitter post from Feb 11, 2013

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• It is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.

  Stephen Covey

  Character, Keeping Promises, Personality

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.49, Mango Media Inc.

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• Sometimes you tell someone to never call you again; and then the phone rings and you hope it's them - it's the most twisted logic of all time.

  John Mayer

  Phones, Logic, Sometimes

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• It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Spiritual, Truth, Pain

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• Why can't we all just get along?

  Rodney King

  Relationship, Peace, People

  "Can’t We All Just Get Along?" by Jenna Brownson, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 26, 2016.

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• The training is a set of interpersonal interactions that lead to emotional and intellectual experiences that provide a circumstance and an intrument for self awareness, self observation and reflection on the circumstances of the subject trainee, both in his individual life and as a social being.

  Humberto Maturana

  Life, Emotional, Reflection

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• If friends disappoint you over and over, that's in large part your own fault. Once someone has shown a tendency to be self-centered, you need to recognize that and take care of yourself; people aren't going to change simply because you want them to.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Friendship, Self, People

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• Every relationship is fundamentally a power struggle, and the individual in power is whoever likes the other person less.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Relationship, Struggle, Power

  Chuck Klosterman (2004). “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• Private victories precede public victories.

  Stephen Covey

  Success, Keeping Promises, Victory

  Stephen R. Covey (1992). “Principle Centered Leadership”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• 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, with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves recedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.

  Stephen Covey

  Character, Mean, Self

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• Authority is not a quality one person 'has,' in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.

  Erich Fromm

  Quality, Looks, Authority

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Sane Society”, p.108, Open Road Media

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• Spiritual direction is an interpersonal relationship in which we learn how to grow, live, and love in the spiritual life.

  Richard J. Foster

  Spiritual, And Love, Grows

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• We say to others only what we need to hear

  Byron Katie

  Needs

  Twitter post from Sep 20, 2013

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• In a culture in which interpersonal relationships are generally considered to provide the answer to every form of distress, it is sometimes difficult to persuade well-meaning helpers that solitude can be as therapeutic as emotional support.

  Anthony Storr

  Emotional, Support, Solitude

  Anthony Storr (2015). “Solitude a Return to the Self”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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