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The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
Hubert H. Humphrey
The only way to change someone's mind is to connect with them from the heart.
Rasheed Ogunlaru
The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention.
Rachel Naomi Remen
Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
Pema Chödrön
The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
Albert Schweitzer
The greatest gift you can give someone is your own personal development. I used to say, 'If you will take care of me, I will take care of you.' Now I say, 'I will take care of me for you, if you will take care of you for me.'
Jim Rohn
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.
Peter Drucker
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Compassion is the basis of all morality.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'
C.S. Lewis
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
Muhammad Ali
A true friend is someone who accepts your past, supports your present, and encourages your future.
Unknown
Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of Love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving.
Osho
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
Woodrow T. Wilson
Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.
John Evelyn
Friendship is the comfort of knowing that even when you feel alone, you aren't.
Unknown
Forgiveness is the final form of love.
Reinhold Niebuhr
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi
Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt
Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
George MacDonald
Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.
Josh McDowell
Forgiveness is the only way to heal.
Caroline Myss
Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.
Jewel
Forgiveness is the highest and most difficult of all moral lessons.
Josiah Royce
The only true test of friendship is the time your friend spends on you.
John Marsden
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
Bernard Meltzer
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi
A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.
Amelia Earhart
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Aesop
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark Twain
Patience is the mark of true friendship. Not in the things that are said, but in those left unsaid.
Unknown
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Saint Augustine
Patience is the key to a lasting friendship.
Unknown
Patience is the ability to tolerate the presence of those we don't necessarily like, but know we need.
Unknown
Patience is the foundation of friendship. It takes time to build trust and understanding.
Unknown
Patience is the bridge that connects friendship to understanding.
Unknown
Patience is the virtue that sustains friendship through difficult times.
Unknown
Patience is the glue that holds a friendship together.
Unknown
Patience is the key to unlocking the door to true friendship.
Unknown
Respect is the key determinant of high-performance leadership. How much people respect you determines how well they perform.
Brian Tracy
Respect is not imposed nor begged; it's earned and offered.
Amit Kalantri
Respect is a two-way street, if you want to get it, you've got to give it.
R.G. Risch
Respect is the foundation of any healthy relationship.
Unknown
Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
Respect is the first step in treating others as they should be treated.
Unknown
Respect is earned, honesty is appreciated, trust is gained, loyalty is returned.
Unknown
Respect is not just what you say, it's what you do.
Unknown
A true friend is someone who is there for you when they'd rather be anywhere else.
Len Wein
Friendship is not about whom you have known the longest... it's about who came, and never left your side.
Unknown
Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
George Eliot
A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.
Unknown
Friendship is the purest love.
Osho
The best mirror is an old friend.
George Herbert
A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.
Elbert Hubbard
The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them.
Ralph Nichols
Communication is the fuel that keeps the fire of your relationship burning, without it, your relationship goes cold.
William Paisley
Communication is not just about what we say, but how we say it. It's not just about what we do, but why we do it.
Unknown
Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply.
Stephen R. Covey
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
George Bernard Shaw
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Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
Stephen Covey
Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people.
Stephen R. Covey
Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved.
William P. Young
Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.
Warren Bennis
Trust is the easiest thing in the world to lose, and the hardest thing in the world to get back.
R. Williams
Trust is like a mirror, you can fix it if it's broken, but you can still see the crack in that mother f*cker's reflection.
Lady Gaga
Trust is the foundation of all human connections, from chance encounters to friendships and intimate relationships.
Stephen Covey
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
Thomas Aquinas
We are all different, which is great because we are all unique. Without diversity, life would be very boring.
Catherine Pulsifer
Diversity is not about how we differ. Diversity is about embracing one another's uniqueness.
Ola Joseph
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
Jean de La Fontaine
1. Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
Woodrow T. Wilson
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
Elisabeth Foley
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
Helen Keller
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
Andrew Carnegie
Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.
Henry Ford
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
Henry Ford
The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.
Phil Jackson
Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.
Mattie Stepanek
No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.
H.E. Luccock
Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people.
Steve Jobs
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
African Proverb
Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have.
Ernie Banks
Loyalty is what makes us trust. Trust is what makes us stay. Staying is what makes us love, and love is what gives us hope.
Glennon Melton
Loyalty is the strongest glue which makes a relationship last for a lifetime.
Mario Puzo
Loyalty is a two-way street. If I'm asking for it from you, then you're getting it from me.
Harvey Specter
Loyalty is the strongest bond between two people, and it is the foundation of any successful relationship.
Unknown
Loyalty is a characteristic of true friendship, and those who possess it are worth keeping in your life.
Unknown
Loyalty is the key ingredient in any friendship. Without it, there can be no trust, no respect, and no love.
Unknown
Loyalty is not just about being there for someone when they need you. It's about standing by them even when they don't.
Unknown
Loyalty is the mark of a true friend, and it is something that cannot be bought or sold.
Unknown
Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.
Max Carver
Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.
Mohsin Hamid
Empathy is the ability to step outside of your own bubble and into the bubbles of other people.
C. JoyBell C.
Empathy is the bridge that connects us to other human beings.
Unknown
Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.
Alfred Adler
Empathy is the antidote to shame. If you put shame in a Petri dish, it needs three things to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you put the same amount of shame in a Petri dish and douse it with empathy, it can't survive.
Brené Brown
Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
Unknown
Empathy is the capacity to think and feel oneself into the inner life of another person.
Heinz Kohut
Empathy is the first step in creating a community and taking action. It's the glue that holds people together.
Unknown
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