Quotes about Relationships

I can tell you what women need in general. They need respect and love. They need to be able to trust your word and to be able to confide in you. So often, we can't care for ourselves in this world, so we need protection and provision.

Merrill Krause - "My brothers have scared off just about any fellow who showed interest in getting to know me." Granny Lassiter - "Well, if a man can't stand up to those brothers of yours, you needn't even consider him. A man ought to be able to hold his own with his wife's family.

Guys can't tell girls what to do. That's an unspoken rule. Learn that now and you'll be way ahead of the game.

So yeah, maybe this will be the rest of our lives. Pot roast and Diet Cokes and my parents making eyes at each other. As for those slaps and punches and hateful words, we'll just sweep those under the rug or wherever they can go.

All too often in life, we see people do what we want them to do and we say nothing, assuming that the behavior has become natural for them, an easy standard.

The key ingredient to building trust is not time. It is courage.

The fact remains that team, because they are made up of imperfect human beings, are inherently dysfuctional.

We are a passionate family that believes in standing up strongly for what is right, even when there is a cost. We live our lives around our Church and our faith, placing special emphasis on maximizing our involvement in our children's lives, and nurturing family-like relationships with our friends.

Trust] requires team members to make themselves vulnerable to one another, and be confident that their respective vulnerabilities will not be used against them.

All great relationships, the ones that last over time, require productive conflict in order to grow.

Moments of truth are best handled face-to-face P.30

Remember, teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.