Quotes about relationships

"Long-term relationships--the ones that matter--are all about weathering the peaks and valleys."

"Relationships are the most important thing in life, and friends are part of that."

Relationships are all there is. Everything in the universe only exists because it is in relationship to everything else. Nothing exists in isolation. We have to stop pretending we are individuals that can go it alone.

We will need to become savvy about how to build relationships, how to nurture growing, evolving things. All of us will need better skills in listening, communicating, and facilitating groups, because these are the talents that build strong relationships.

Leadership is always dependent upon the context, but the context is established by the relationships.

People who are emotionally adapt — who know and manage their feelings well, and who read and deal effectively with other people's feelings — are at an advantage in any domain in life, whether in romance and intimate relationships or picking up the unspoken rules that govern success in organizational politics.

[Connecting is] a constant process of giving and receiving -- of asking for and receiving help.

At every stage of my career, I sought out the most influential people around me and asked for their help and guidance.

People who instinctively establish a strong network of relationships have always created great businesses.

You can't get there alone. In fact, you can't get very far at all.

But my other words at the Mastranos’ had betrayed me: I have fun with him. Now, you should have fun with the one you love, but that shouldn’t have been what first came to my mind. I should have said, We strengthen each other, or, He makes me want to be a better person. Perhaps most importantly, He understands me perfectly. But none of that was true, so I hadn’t said those things.

We hold each other’s lives in our open hands, not in clenched fists.