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Human Relations Quotes

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Don’t try to control someone else. It won’t work. Think about a newborn infant. How much control do you have over whether it wants to poop, eat or cry? And you think you can control an adult!? Control yourself and you will then be truly ready to exert a positive influence on others.

Don’t try to control someone else. It won’t work. Think about a newborn infant. How much control do you have over whether it wants to poop, eat or cry? And you think you can control an adult!? Control yourself and you will then be truly ready to exert a positive influence on others.

Don’t open a shop unless you know how to smile.

– Jewish proverb

Don’t “should” on people. When people complain, say “I know you wouldn’t complain unless it was important, right?” Then say “If it’s important, I’m sure you would like to solve it, right?” Then ask “What are some of the options that are open to you?”

Do what you can to make a genuine difference in other people’s lives.

– Charles Handy

Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man’s growth without destroying his roots.

– Frank A. Clark

Conflicting cultural values increase the risk of creating misunderstandings and decrease the morale and often alienate customers or business partners.

– Sylvia Odenwald

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you’ll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

– Jacob M. Braude

Commandment number one of any truly civilized society is this: Let people be different.

– David Grayson

COMMITMENT: There’s nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos (coyotes, rattlesnakes, etc. depends upon area of the country).

Children smile on the average 400 times/day; Adults: 15 times/day. Ever wonder why?

Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.

– Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.

– “Kite Runner”

Children aren’t happy with nothing to ignore, And that’s what parents were created for.

Charm is the ability to make someone think that both of you are quite wonderful.

Caring for each other is the rock upon which a good society is built.

– Robert Greenleaf

By doing simple acts of kindness for others, we can’t help but lift ourselves up, too.

By working to improve your relationships with others you may be able to avoid the line from country western music: “I couldn’t see you leaving, but I can sure see you’re gone!”

Blow, blow, thou winter wind, thou art not so unkind as man’s ingratitude.

– William Shakespeare

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.

Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them.

– Scout Finch

As the Muslims say: “Trust in Allah – but tie up your camel.”

An individual without information can’t take responsibility. An individual with information can’t help but take responsibility.

– Jan Carlzon

Always remember that everyone with whom you have a relationship has an invisible sign on their forehead that says “Make Me Feel Important. Treat them accordingly.

– Simon Cowell’s father

Always do what is right. It will gratify most of the people, and astound the rest.

All of us have something to learn. All of us have something to teach.

Advice is like snow: the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

– Samuel Taylor Coleridge

After the verb ‘to love,’ ‘to help’ is the most beautiful verb in the world.

– Bertha von Suttner

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