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Human Relations Quotes

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The best exercise for the heart is to reach down and pull other people up.

The best index to a person’s character is how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and how he treats people who can’t fight back.

Tact is rubbing out another’s mistake instead or rubbing it in.

Tact is the ability to make a person see lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

– Orlando A. Battista

Swallowing your pride occasionally will never give you indigestion.

Statement: “If I’ve told you once, I’ve told you a thousand times …” Response: “If you’ve told me a thousand times, isn’t it about time that you learned something?”

Some relationships are like leftovers in the refrigerator after Thanksgiving. You are better off when the turkey’s gone!

Some people feel they work in an environment where doing a good job is like wetting your pants in a dark suit …it gives you a warm feeling but nobody notices!

Some cause happiness wherever they go, others whenever they go.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

– Oscar Wilde

Some consultants are like the bottom half of a double boiler: They get all heated up but don’t know what’s cooking.

Small kindnesses, small courtesies, small considerations, habitually practiced in our social intercourse, give a greater charm to the character than the display of great talents and accomplishments.

– Mary Ann Kelty

So remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court him and admires whoever will not bend before him.

Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow.

– Arthur Stringer

Showing humility doesn’t mean you think less of yourself, it just means that you think of yourself less.

Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them.

– Franklin P. Adams

Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and wrong – because sometime in your life you will have been all of these.

Respect can not be learned, chased or acquired – it can only be earned.

ROMANCE without FINANCE can too soon become a NUISANCE.

Remember the 3 R’s: Respect for self, Respect for others, Responsibility for your actions.

Relationship is the hub of the universe.

Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous – not just to some people in some circumstances – but to everyone all the time.

– T.J. Watson Jr.

Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without his thumb on the scale.

– Byron Langfeld

Prejudices are often based on pigments of our imagination.

Praise is like champagne. It is best served while still bubbly.

Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit: we cannot flower and grow with out it.

PRAISE LOUDLY. Blame softly.

Poor communication is a symptom of poor performance and low trust — not the cause.

People will forget what you said. They will forget what you did. But they will never forget how you made them feel.

– Maya Angelou

People will respond in a manner consistent with the way they are being treated.

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