Winning with People Quotes

The Situation Principle: Never let the situation mean more than the relationship.

A person with a negative self-image will expect the worst, damage relationships, and find others who are similarly negative.

German poet Herman Hesse wrote, “If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.” I agree with his viewpoint.

Any married man should forget his mistakes—there’s no use in two people remembering the same thing.

When somebody loves you with no strings attached and no personal agenda, it’s the most freeing thing in the world.

THE QUESTION I MUST ASK MYSELF: DO I TREAT OTHERS BETTER THAN THEY TREAT ME?

the most important relationship you will ever have is with yourself. You’ve got to be your own best friend first.” —PHIL MCGRAW

Marriage, like any long-term relationship, requires us to . . . wade through a few things that are difficult. work for many things that are needed. wait on some things that take time. watch out for those things that can be harmful. wave good-bye to personal things that are selfish.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

the entire population of the world—with one minor exception—is composed of others.

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

the difference between who you are today and who you will be in five years will be the people you spend time with and the books you read. The

I may not be able to change the world I see around me, but I can change what I see within me.

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place, but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at