Human Relations Quotes
Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.
motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power.
I play around with human things, human relationships and that, and allow that kind of talk to work in that way, on that level.
I'm fascinated with human relationships. I advocate the relationship you have with yourself.
If our love for each other really is participatory, then all other human relationships nourish it; it is inclusive, never exclusive.
Outside among your fellows among strangers you must preserve appearances 100 things you cannot do but inside the terrible freedom!
When the man is at home his standing in society is well known and quietly taken but when he is abroad it is problematical and is dependent on the success of his manners.
The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them but to be indifferent to them that's the essence of inhumanity.
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked not be endured with patient resignation.
Science may have found a cure for most evils: but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
Learn to be friendly and learn to welcome all people, but note however in doing so that it is not every hand that is stretched towards you that deserves your handshake!
If no one knew them well enough to trust them, then no one was going to speak with them, then they would never get the information that would have warned them to be cautious.
It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.
If you think you are easily irritated by people, guess what? You irritate other people easily too!
The opinions which we hold of one another our relations with friends and kinsfolk are in no sense permanent save in appearance but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself.
Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation a mental or physical barter to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.
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.
At the heart of our friendly or purely social relations there lurks a hostility momentarily cured but recurring in fits and starts.
The fact is that the possession of a highly social conscience about large-scale issues is no guarantee whatever of reasonable conduct in private relations.
Acquaintance n: a person whom we know well enough to borrow from but not well enough to lend to.
If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be you do.
I reckon there's as much human nature in some folks as there is in others if not more.
Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions toward us by an almost instinctive network of taboos.
It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe with one trifling exception is composed of others.