Relationship Quotes

"Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten"

Dick Gregory, Comedian

"If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far"

Daniel Goleman, Author

"But once you are in that field, emotional intelligence emerges as a much stronger predictor of who will be most successful, because it is how we handle ourselves in our relationships that determines how well we do once we are in a given job"

Daniel Goleman, Author

"I have my ethics and morals. I have my anchor point of what is right and wrong in real life, but I'm not afraid to entertain any and every aspect of personality in relationship to creating a character"

Corin Nemec, Actor

"A relationship has to be cultivated. There have to be feelings of love for another first. But then you have to really like the person"

Eric Braeden, Actor

"I think maintaining relationships with my friends, my mother, my manager, they're all important"

Christina Applegate, Actress

"We had a strong relationship with Walter Brown, and felt that he was the best owner in the league"

Bob Cousy, Athlete

"A lot of what I've been learning in the last two years is due to therapy - about my sexuality, why things go wrong, why relationships haven't worked. It isn't anything to do with anybody else; it's to do with me"

Boy George, Musician

"We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship"

Daniel Drew, Businessman

"Even in relationships, I don't get my hopes up or anything, especially not right now because I know I'm young and I've got plenty of time later in the future"

Christina Milian, Musician

"I have been heartbroken once and it has affected all my relationships from there on. But now I look at it as a occupational hazard. If you are in the meat market at some point you are gonna get mad cows disease"

Dominic Monaghan, Actor

"But I have tried to go over it very carefully, not merely what the evidence is, but with psychoanalysts and psychologists, and I think we're just about all agreed that Lincoln and Speed did not have a homosexual relationship"

David Herbert Donald, Historian

"The Russians are turning east to the Chinese - to the Europeans' surprise. It always seemed to me that the relationship between Russia and China would shift from being based in Marx and Lenin to being based in oil and gas"

Daniel Yergin, Author

"First, President Reagan was not enthusiastic. But I built up a relationship with him in other areas and then persuaded him that this was important to us and to me, and that we had to at least be in the process of looking at this seriously"

Brian Mulroney, Statesman

"I got off on the fact that a guy would be so into me from the get-go without really knowing me. That's probably why I had so many bad relationships"

Christina Applegate, Actress

"People here in Los Angeles are disgusted now about a sex scandal involving Arnold Schwarzenegger. Apparently for seven years, he carried on a sexual relationship with his own wife"

Craig Kilborn, Entertainer

"I have this home in New York, I have a long-term relationship with my boyfriend, who's from Australia, and I had this business that I had maintain. Even though I wasn't actively shooting, there's a lot of peripheral work"

Claire Danes, Actress

"A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck"

Adam Clayton, Musician

"I had a feeling about directing Cocoon II: The Return. At first I wasn't too interested because it was a sequel. Then I read the script and was excited by the relationships and its mystic quality"

Daniel Petrie, Director

"But mostly, it's a book about my relationship with my father"

Alison Bechdel, Cartoonist

"It is true that women tend to be more identified with their bodies because in this crazy world, both men and women measure women's value as human beings in relationship to their physical appearance"

Andrew Cohen, Writer

"Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person"

Brian Tracy, Author

"People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace"

Zig Ziglar, Author

"Every society in the history of man has upheld the institution of marriage as a bond between a man and a woman. Why? Because society is based on one thing: that society is based on the future of the society. And that's what? Children. Monogamous relationships"

Rick Santorum, Politician

"I hope I presented what I felt the woman seemed to be about, but I couldn't give any reason as to why she remained in the relationship other than that their relationship was very special"

Jenny Agutter, Actress

"But John Landis wrote a good relationship which is really what the film's about. A very straightforward young woman who's very sure of herself and she meets a young man who needs some taking care of"

Jenny Agutter, Actress

"So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself"

Alan Watts, Philosopher

"Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the world"

Samuel P. Huntington, Sociologist

"A relationship requires a lot of work and commitment"

Greta Scacchi, Actress

"It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person"

Paul Watzlawick, Psychologist

"My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking"

Douglass North, Economist

"The moral and spiritual aspects of both personal and international relationships have a practical bearing which so-called practical men deny"

Henry A. Wallace, Vice President

"As far as my relationship with President Putin is concerned, it's fine"

Gerhard Schroder, Statesman

"I believe in businesses where you engage in creative thinking, and where you form some of your deepest relationships. If it isn't about the production of the human spirit, we are in big trouble"

Anita Roddick, Businessman

"The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs"

W. Edwards Deming, Scientist

"We have relationships and know the exact outcome with that person because we don't deal with ourselves and don't deal with our issues and end up being attracted to the same person or the person is attracted to our energy"

Boris Kodjoe, Actor

"I've never been Romeo who meets a girl and falls for her immediately. It's been a much slower process for me each time I've gone into a relationship"

Leonardo DiCaprio, Actor

"To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe"

E. Stanley Jones, Theologian

"Your relationship with an agent has got to be mutually beneficial. If you can't help their careers, then they're not going to be interested"

David Steinberg, Comedian

"Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts"

Christopher Alexander, Architect

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