Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone. — Harold Ramis
Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows. — Ben Stein
When it comes to nurturing professional relationships and developing a community, LinkedIn is one of the best resources. — Lewis Howes
Relationships matter: the currency for systemic change was trust, and trust comes through forming healthy working relationships. People, not programs, change people. — Bruce D. Perry
Colleagues should take care of each other, have fun, celebrate success, learn by failure, look for reasons to praise not to criticize, communicate freely and respect each other. — Richard Branson
Good human relations not only bring great personal rewards but are essential to the success of any enterprise. — J. R. D. Tata
Mutual caring relationships require kindness and patience, tolerance, optimism, joy in the other's achievements, confidence in oneself, and the ability to give without undue thought of gain. — Fred Rogers
People and relationships never stop being a work in progress — Nora Roberts
Building strong relationships and connections with your team is essential for effective leadership. — Michael Abrashoff
I think it all comes down to relationships - how I treat my wife, how I treat my kids, how I treat the guys at the grocery store, all aspects of every day, what I'm involved in. — Michael W. Smith
Work on your relationships... Relationships need renewal or they die. — Bo Sanchez
It's a great relationship when you can work with the person who you consider to be your soul mate. — Rick Derringer
It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized. — Barbara Kruger
Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success. — Paul J. Meyer
... Really get to know and establish relationships with your teammates because they are your new family and they will be the ones there for you when anything goes wrong. — Alex Morgan
Short Professional Relationships Quotes
Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still roadworthy. — Zygmunt Bauman
The glue that holds all relationships together ... is trust, and trust is based on integrity. — Brian Tracy
Invest in great relationships, they will pay a lifetime of dividends. — Bill Walsh
The scariest thing about distance is that you don't know whether they'll miss you or forget you.
Work Relationships Quotes
You can't save a relationship unless both people are equally invested. It takes a joint effort to make it work. One person trying will never be enough. — Tony Gaskins
Clear communication. Respect. A lot of laughter. And a lot of orgasms. That's what makes a marriage work. — Dr. Dre
The best innovation comes from inclusive work environments that foster diverse ideas, nurture people with diverse talent and backgrounds, and create strong relationships with diverse communities. — Mark Parker
When someone truly cares about you, they make an effort, not an excuse.
I love working with a stylist but I also love having personal relationships with designers. A stylist is great for pulling together an entire outfit, accessories included, and for shaking me out of my comfort zone. — Elizabeth Banks
Today I will stop trying to control my relationships. I will participate at a reasonable level and let the other person do the same. I can let go, knowing that the relationship will find its own life-or not-and that I don't have to do all the work, only my share. — Melody Beattie
I believe we're going to find that respect and affection are essential to all relationships working and contempt destroys them. — John M. Gottman
God sometimes removes people from your life to protect you. Don't run after them.
It is something that artists do all the time unconsciously, working in the style of someone they consider a great master. I just wanted to make that relationship literal. — Sherrie Levine
The fastest and most efficient means of establishing a quick working relationship is to acknowledge the negative and diffuse it. — Chris Voss
I think both sides [China and United States] should work hard to build a new type of relationship between big powers. The two sides should cooperate with each other for a win-win result in order to benefit people from the two countries and the world. — Xi Jinping
We must establish a personal connection with each other. Connection before content. Without relatedness, no work can occur. — Peter Block
Business Relationship Quotes
You can take my factories, burn up my buildings, but give me my people and I'll build the business right back again. — Henry Ford
A lasting relationship with a woman is only possible if you are a business failure. — J. Paul Getty
You should surround yourself with people that believe in you, in life, and in business. — Bill Ackman
If you cannot find a good companion to walk with, walk alone, like an elephant roaming the jungle. It is better to be alone than to be with those who will hinder your progress.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives. — Tony Robbins
Having even just one relationship with an online influencer can have a significant impact on your business. — Lewis Howes
Instant gratification is the kiss of death. That mindset hurts anything it touches. Business, health, politics, friendship, relationship, finances. It attracts short-term thinkers and is turned off by long-term thinkers. Don't fall for this trap. — Patrick Bet-David
Show respect even to people who don't deserve it; not as a reflection of their character, but as a reflection of yours.
I am convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies. — Lawrence Bossidy
The people and opportunities your business needs are out there, but the only way to uncover them is to take an active role in bringing your social network to life. — Lewis Howes
Your clients are critical to your business. Don't lose touch with who they are and why they've chosen to do business with you. — Lewis Howes
Choosing a romantic partner isn’t just about the romance—you’re also choosing a confidant, counselor, career advisor, therapist, investor, teacher, travel buddy, roommate, best friend, and business partner. Choose wisely. — Mark Manson
Personal Relationships Quotes
In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth? — Carl Rogers
You must never sacrifice your relationship with God for the sake of a relationship with another person. — Charles Stanley
A good test of a relationship is how a person responds to the word 'no.' Love respects 'no,' control does not. — Henry Cloud
The people that are there for you on your darkest nights are the ones worth spending your brightest days with.
If we commit ourselves to one person for life, this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather, it demands the courage to move into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love which is permanent; into that love which is not possession but participation. — Madeleine L'Engle
When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free. — Catherine Ponder
I do not need to establish a deep, lasting, time-consuming personal relationship with every student. What I must do is to be totally and nonselectively present to the student-to each student-as he addresses me. The time interval may be brief but the encounter is total. — Nel Noddings
If you're abest during my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success.
The degree to which I can create relationships, which facilitate the growth of others as separate persons, is a measure of the growth I have achieved in myself. — Carl Rogers
Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without. — James Dobson
However good or bad you feel about your relationship, the person you are with at this moment is the "right" person, because he or she is the mirror of who you are inside. — Deepak Chopra
Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved. — Barbara Johnson
Developing Relationships Quotes
Cooperation and conflict are two sides of the same coin; both arise out of man's relationship with his fellows. The larger the group, the greater the possibility of development through cooperation, and the greater the possibility of conflict. — Julius Nyerere
You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. — Barbara De Angelis
In order to develop normally, a child requires progressively more complex joint activity with one or more adults who have an irrational emotional relationship with the child. Somebody's got to be crazy about that kid. That's number one. First, last and always. — Urie Bronfenbrenner
Every heart sings a song incomplete, until another heart whispers back.
I don't remember any sibling rivalry growing up, because by the time I was really conscious, Tom was going away to college. My relationship with him, which is a very close one, really developed in more recent years. — David Hyde Pierce
Prioritize spending time with people who make you better—who lift you up and make you want to grow. — Sahil Bloom
Interpersonal experience shapes the mind as it continues to develop throughout the lifespan... Interactions with the environment, especially relationships with other people, directly shape the development of the brain's structure and function. — Daniel J. Siegel
Don't inflict pains from your past on your present relationships.
When one group rules another, the relationship between the two is political. When such an arrangement is carried out over a long period of time it develops an ideology (feudalism, racism, etc.). All historical civilizations are patriarchies: their ideology is male supremacy. — Kate Millett
But I was also a big mouth, I started to develop a troubled relationship with Harry Shorten. — Gil Kane
I believe that the happiness you’ll find across all areas of your life – your work, your relationships, and everything in between – will positively correlate to your ability to deal with uncertainty. — Steven Bartlett
Once you have a major success with assertiveness, you learn that it's a much healthier path than being a doormat to the insensitive folks. You gain respect for yourself, have more time for your priorities, and develop authentic and healthier relationships. — Doreen Virtue
Morning routines help prime you for the day ahead. Even 5 minutes of intentional time each morning can result in more energy, increased calm, less anxiety, improved stress tolerance, and better relationships - professional and personal. — Rangan Chatterjee
If someone betrays you once, it's their fault. If they betray you twice, it's your fault.
My goal on the show was to be professional. But sometimes you cant help who you have a connection with, and you can only fight it for so long - which I did for a really, really long time. — Nina Dobrev
Cognitive therapy is based on the idea that when you change the way you think, you can change the way you feel and behave. In other words, if we can learn to think about other people in a more positive and realistic way, it will be far easier to resolve conflicts and develop rewarding personal and professional relationships. — David D. Burns
How we walk with the broken speaks louder than how we sit with the great.
At first we got along real well. Now... it's pretty much just a professional relationship. — Jose Carreras
Legal documents have mistrust written all over them. It's unfortunate, but the human DNA is so tuned to kind of taking you for granted that we tend to protect ourselves legally. That's why I don't read them as, if I read them, I will go soft. To me, the human relationship is far more important than the professional bond I share with anyone. — Karan Johar
When I work, my first relationship with people is professional. — Bill Murray
Remember, the IDF, the Israeli Defense Forces, have a working relationship with the Palestinian Authority security forces, which have been incredibly professional. — Hillary Clinton
Personal relationships are often based on affection - professional relationships can have affection but they must have mutual understanding, trust and respect. — Robert S. Kaplan
You would hope that coworkers who are dating can act professionally. But then again, some people can handle it, and some people can't. And those who can't kind of ruin it for the rest of us. Sometimes it's hard to be around an office relationship that went sour. When two actors have to be onscreen together, it can get really, really awful. — Kathleen Robertson
A big part of being in a relationship or marriage or whatever is you have to eventually compromise. Your life doesn't end up exactly the way you think it's going to, and if it's the right relationship, you might have to compromise what you're doing professionally. — Nicholas Stoller
I'm honored and I think the relationship with Ralph Lauren brand has been so long because it goes beyond the face or the guy. I don't feel that I'm a model at all, because I'm not. I'm a professional polo player that endorses a clothing company. — Nacho Figueras
For me, writing started as pleasure that became professionalized, so my relationship to it is a bit sullied. I'm working it out. — Katrina Onstad
The thing that changes your professional life, your capabilities, your learning, your understanding, your opportunity flow, your ability to make things happen, is the center relationships you have with powerful and effective people around you in the industry, in the activity that you want to be doing. — Reid Hoffman
The intelligence community is very professional, they do their jobs well, they're the best intelligence gatherers in the world. They're dedicated, patriotic Americans. They will work with any president. They want to have a good relationship with every president. — Adam Schiff
We have a professional relationship [with Chancellor Angela Merkel].2016 is the year of the German-Russian youth exchange, so the relations are moving on. — Vladimir Putin
From the Cooperative League, I suppose, with the Depression lingering as long as it did, the next step in terms of, as you call it, professional relationship, was to go to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People [NAACP]. I went there as an assistant field secretary, and so forth. So, I suppose that was the first organized step. — Ella Baker
Nina Simone was a gifted and prolific singer, songwriter and pianist who became a powerful presence in the civil rights movement and paid a professional price for it. Behind the scenes, she struggled in a fractious, sometimes violent relationship with her husband and manager and with mental health issues that strained other relationships, including with her only daughter. — Michel Martin
The digital world has allowed me a connection with my reader that I'd never had before. I didn't meet the people who read my material. The fan letters were mostly answered by professional people that'd done them for a living. And I didn't have any daily connection with their response to my work. I didn't have a relationship with my audience. And every artist should have it. — Berkeley Breathed
Every aspect of your life, whether it's a task or relationship, personal or professional, will be based on love and joy. And when you get right down to it, nothing else really matters. — Martha Beck
I began to expand my personal service in the church, and to search more diligently for a closer relationship with God among my different business, professional and political interests. — Jimmy Carter
I've lived in a preindustrial (rural Argentina) as well as an industrial world. You experience a different sense of time in a community that works the land. Human relationships aren't professionalized or contractualized; family and friends take primacy. Life has much more continuity than discontinuity. There's a great deal of poetry in everyday life. — Shoshana Zuboff
When I work, my first relationship with people is professional. There are people who want to be your friend right away. I say, "We're not gonna be friends until we get this done. If we don't get this done, we're never going to be friends, because if we don't get the job done, then the one thing we did together that we had to do together we failed." — Bill Murray
There is no more moving a professional relationship than that between a law clerk and a Supreme Court justice. As a place to work, the court is unique in its intimacy and intensity. — Cliff Sloan
A touching and compassionate yet completely professional account of the psychological--indeed spiritual--dimensions of the doctorDpatient relationship that make the difference between fixing and healing. — Melvin Konner
More than seven out of 10 people have found The Landmark Forum to be one of life’s most rewarding experiences. To me, this suggests that The Landmark Forum addresses many of people’s most profound concerns how to improve their personal and professional relationships, how to be a more effective person, how to think productively about their life and goals. — Daniel Yankelovich
To start with, there's the alien accent. "Tree" is the number between two and four. "Jeintz" is the name of the New York professional football team. A "fit" is a bottle measuring seven ounces less than a quart. This exotic tongue has no relationship to any of the approved languages at the United Nations, and is only slightly less difficult to master than Urdu. — Fletcher Knebel
It brings me great grief and sadness to hear of the passing of one of the best and most respected trainers of this era, Emanuel Steward. I learned a lot from him during our professional relationship and I will be forever grateful for his help during that time. We were also friends and I know I am going to miss him as so many others will too. He was an important part of our boxing community. — Oscar De La Hoya
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And even though we don't have the professional relationship anymore, the love and friendship we have for each other will remain. He is like a father to me and I hope we both keep succeeding in our careers. — Gustavo Kuerten
Try never to be the smartest person in the room. And if you are, I suggest you invite smarter people... or find a different room. In professional circles it's called networking. In organizations it's called team building. And in life it's called family, friends, and community. We are all gifts to each other, and my own growth as a leader has shown me again and again that the most rewarding experiences come from my relationships. — Michael Dell
Well, it's such an intricate, beautiful script about eight professional robbers pulling a heist, and it deals with elements of betrayal, trust, instinct, and need for relationships. — Harvey Keitel
I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing-to be clear. I have given up all thought of writing poetically or symbolically or experimentally, or in any of the other modes that might (if I were good enough) get me a Pulitzer prize. I would write merely clearly and in this way establish a warm relationship between myself and my readers, and the professional critics-Well, they can do whatever they wish. — Isaac Asimov
Even the wealthiest professional woman can be "brought down" by being in a relationship where she longs to be loved and is consistently lied to. To the degree that she trusts her male companion, lying and other forms of betrayal will most likely shatter her self-confidence and self-esteem. — Bell Hooks
Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are. — George Orwell
Whenever I talk to anyone I care about, I am always seeking approval. There is always a pleading lilt in my voice that demands love. Even the people I work with, the ones I am supposed to have a professional relationship with, all business, get pulled into my need. I can't help it. I want to be adored. — Elizabeth Wurtzel
Even prior to marriage and motherhood, it's always been about prioritising and focusing on what you can commit to. That's been my approach to every aspect of my life, be it my relationships or my professional commitments. — Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
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