Human Relations Quotes

• An honorable human relationship ... is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.

  Adrienne Rich

  Violent, Process, Honorable

  Adrienne Rich (2002). “Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations”, p.21, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Good human relations not only bring great personal rewards but are essential to the success of any enterprise.

  J. R. D. Tata

  Essentials, Rewards, Relation

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• Human relationships are primary in all of living. When the gusty winds blow and shake our lives, if we know that people care about us, we may bend with the wind ... but we won’t break.

  Fred Rogers

  Blow, Wind, People

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, p.51, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are.

  Stephen Covey

  Relationship, Duplicity, Important

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.228, Mango Media Inc.

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• Human relations just are not fixed in their orbits like the planets -- they're more like galaxies, changing all the time, exploding into light for years, then dying away.

  May Sarton

  Years, Light, Dying

  May Sarton (2014). “Crucial Conversations: A Novel”, p.37, Open Road Media

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• The most unreliable thing in this world is human relationships.

  Jack Ma

  Leadership, Business, World

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• If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Relationship, Peace, Money

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1950). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1944-1945, Volume 13”, p.615, Best Books on

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• An honorable human relationship- that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word "love"- is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.
  It is important to do this because it breaks down human self-delusion and isolation.
  It is important to do this because in doing so we do justice to our own complexity.
  It is important to do this because we can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.

  Adrienne Rich

  Love, Self, Two

  Adrienne Rich (1995). “On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978”, p.104, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose a future.

  Albert Camus

  Relationship, Helping, Humans

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• A quality such as self-esteem is a result of practicing good human relations.

  Robert Ringer

  Inspirational, Self Esteem, Quality

  Robert J. Ringer (1990). “Million dollar habits”, Wynwood

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• The ability to break a loved one's heart is the essential contradiction in human relationships.

  Amy Dickinson

  Women, Heart, Essentials

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• A UNITED civilization is possible only when human relations are balanced in all transactions which have to do with the distribution of the values of life which all men persistently and constantly seek.

  Walter Russell

  Men, Civilization, Value Of Life

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• In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

  Graham Greene

  Kindness, Lying, Thousand

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• Stories are the currency of human relationships.

  Robert McKee

  Stories, Currency, Humans

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• Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.

  Amelia Barr

  Love, Spiritual, Greatness

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• A habit for all of us to develop would be to look for something to appreciate in everyone we meet. We can all be generous with appreciation. Everyone is grateful for it. It improves every human relationship, it brings new courage to people facing difficulties, and it brings out the best in everyone. So, give appreciation generously whenever you can. You will never regret it.

  Carl Holmes

  Appreciation, Regret, Grateful

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• You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

  Epicurus

  Boyfriend, Being Happy, Courage

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• One's faith is kept alive as one occasionally meets a realized ideal of better human relations.

  Jane Addams

  Alive, Relation, Humans

  Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.95, Courier Corporation

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• The final frontier may be human relationships, one person to another.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Finals, May, Humans

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• Human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half the time greedily seeking them, and half the time pulling away from them.

  Willa Cather

  Ego, Half, Pulling Away

  Willa Cather (2011). “My Mortal Enemy”, p.18, Vintage

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• The fact that people can forget these simple truths when intellectualizing about children shows how far modern doctrines have taken us. They make it easy to think of children as lumps of putty to be shaped instead of partners in a human relationship.

  Steven Pinker

  Children, Teaching, Taken

  Steven Pinker (2003). “The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature”, p.594, Penguin UK

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• For there is but one problem - the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Relationship, Joy, Problem

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• There is no hope of joy except in human relations.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Friendship, Happiness, Real Friends

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• The wisest man I have ever known once said to me: 'Nine out of every ten people improve on acquaintance,' and I have found his words true.

  Frank Arthur Swinnerton

  Men, Wisest Man, People

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• There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Pitfalls, Way, Danger

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