Quotes about Relationships

Creating the unity necessary to run an effective business or a family or a marriage requires great personal strength and courage. No amount of technical administrative skill in laboring for the masses can make up for lack of nobility of personal character in developing relationships. It is at a very essential, one-on-one level that we live the primary laws of love and life.

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 deep, lasting satisfaction or sense of fulfillment. The pleasure-centered person, too soon bored with each succeeding level of "fun," constantly cries for more and more.

So if you're living your life around a temporary role and allowing your treasure chest to remain barren in terms of your only real permanent role, then you're letting yourself be seduced by the culture and robbed of the true richness of your life—the deep and lasting satisfaction that only comes through family relationships.

Anything less than Win/Win in an interdependent reality is a poor second best that will have impact in the long-term relationship.

If there is little or no trust, there is no foundation for permanent success.

Private Victory precedes Public Victory. Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.

Love is a value that is actualized through loving actions.

it's so important whenever you come into a new situation to get all the expectations out on the table.

He continually made deposits into each of our 'emotional bank accounts' with one-on-one dates and modeled that 'in relationships

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

Did you ever consider how ridiculous it would be to try to cram on a farm—to forget to plant in the spring, play all summer and then cram in the fall to bring in the harvest? The farm is a natural system. The price must be paid and the process followed. You always reap what you sow; there is no shortcut. This principle is also true, ultimately, in human behavior, in human relationships. They, too, are natural systems based on the law of the harvest

in our relationships with others. It involves mutual learning, mutual influence, mutual benefits.