Quotes About Relationships

People want to be listened to and they want people around who will listen.

No matter how "important" or successful you are, no one is immune to the pleasure of someone taking interest in you as a person

Professor Overstreet's wise advice: First, arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way.

Hay una ley de suma importancia en la conducta humana. Si obedecemos esa ley, casi nunca nos veremos en aprietos. Si la obedecemos, obtendremos incontables amigos y constante felicidad. Pero en cuanto quebrantemos esa ley nos veremos en interminables dificultades. La ley es ésta: Trate siempre de que la otra persona se sienta importante.

When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity.

Publilio Syro, señaló: "Nos interesan los demás cuando se interesan por nosotros".

Franklin D. Roosevelt knew that one of the simplest, most obvious and most important ways of gaining good will was by remembering names and making people feel important—yet how many of us do it?

Sea un buen oyente. Anime a los demás a que hablen de sí mismos.

Even if people are already on your side, bragging and whining don't bring them closer.

The difference, as they say, is in the details—the often subtle details of your daily interactions.

woke up to the nightmare that she'd betrayed the man of her dreams.

REGLA 4 Empiece en forma amigable.

Seeing things through another person's eyes may ease tensions when personal problems become overwhelming.

If, as a result of reading this book, you get only one thing—an increased tendency to think always in terms of the other person's point of view, and see things from that person's angle as well as your own—if you get only that one thing from this book, it may easily prove to be one of the stepping-stones of your career.

PRINCIPLE 4 Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves.

it is more natural to talk about what you want than to talk about what the other person wants; and so on.

En la plenitud de su actividad, John D. Rockefeller dijo que "la habilidad para tratar con la gente es un artículo que se puede comprar, como el azúcar o el café". "Y pagaré más por esa capacidad —agregó— que por cualquier otra.

Bajulação consiste em dizer a um outro homem justamente o que ele pensa acerca de si mesmo.

Em seu livro Getting Through to People (Comunicando-se com as pessoas), o Dr. Gerald S. Nirenberg afirmou: "Obtemos a cooperação

Se pueden ganar más amigos en dos meses si se interesa uno en los demás, que los que se ganarían en dos años si se hace que los demás se interesen por uno.

El individuo que no se interesa por sus semejantes es quien tiene las mayores dificultades en la vida y causa las mayores heridas a los demás. De esos individuos surgen todos los fracasos humanos.

It was not that I did not love you; it was that I expected too much of youth. I was measuring you by the yardstick of my own years.

We must first remember that today's relational successes are not measured on the scale of media—which ones to use and how many friends, fans, or followers one can accumulate. They are measured on the scale of meaning. Become meaningful in your interactions and the path to success in any endeavor is simpler and far more sustainable. The reason? People notice. People remember. People are moved when their interactions with you always leave them a little better.

To win friends and influence others in today's world takes less than clever rhetoric. It takes the understated eloquence of grace and self-deprecation.