Quotes About Getting Along With People

#1. I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Mahatma Gandhi

#2. Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.

Fletcher Knebel

#3. A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#4. The secret of getting along with people is that of postponing quarrels.

Murray Leinster

#5. Men are destroyed for being rebellious, and women destroy themselves by failing to be rebellious. Unless you can make that next jump to either getting along with people or resisting people, you are ultimately destroying yourself.

Chuck Palahniuk

#6. I will never compromise Truth for the sake of getting along with people who can only get along when we agree.

D.R. Silva

#7. Till this day, people stop me in the supermarket, and they're like, 'Oh, we're so proud of you!'

Tessanne Chin

#8. I don't mind paying people more for something if we're getting more. But just to change a deal because you're greedy and you want more? No. I'm not gonna go along with that.

Vince McMahon

#9. Power is getting things done without having to demonstrate that you can bulldoze it through. I'm most effective when I've studied an issue, when I can make a credible argument, and then bring people along.

Donna Edwards

#10. I don't have the activist temperament. I like listening to divergent points of view and hearing people out. I like getting along. I even like being liked, although activists of any stripe should get rid of that handicap at the outset.

Victoria Moran

#11. We are in conflict with the world; otherwise, there would be no necessity to put forth tremendous effort to meet the world and its demands.

Krishnananda Saraswati

#12. But since the new Archchancellor never paid much attention to anything anyone said while he was eating, and Poons never noticed that he wasn't getting any answers, they got along quite well.

Terry Pratchett

#13. If a film or any piece of work doesn't entertain, it fails - and that is using the word entertain literally, meaning it holds you there and you become absorbed by it so that you don't walk away and get bored and so on.

Mike Leigh

#14. Each guy has his own space. We all end up in one of the other guy's rooms all the time. We always end up together, as far as people getting along.

Nikki Sixx

#15. And then, as the years went on, I just kept moving along, busting into doors and getting roles, until I started to actually believe that what these other people were saying was true.

Vincent D'Onofrio

#16. It's a weird sensation to be mad and learning at the same time.

Jeff Foxworthy

#17. It's hard to get along with people. As much as you try to like them and accept them as individuals, it becomes difficult because they keep getting out of line and wasting your time.

Henry Rollins

#18. Wanting more than you can have will spoil what you've got.

Robert B. Parker

#19. Conservatives really don't believe in politics as the primary instrument of getting along in life and therefore don't tend to put their energy into it a way people left of center do.

P. J. O'Rourke

#20. I used to have this little mouse. I buy birds from the pet store and I let them go.

Ziggy Marley

#21. The people I used to be surrounded by are getting along without me. Somehow, that really bugs me.

Donald Miller

#22. Getting along well with other people is still the world's most needed skill. With it ... there is no limit to what person can do. We need people, we need the cooperation of others. There is very little we can do alone

Earl Nightingale

#23. My daughter loves singing above all else.

Vanessa Paradis

#24. (Meanwhile, other people seem to be getting along with God just fine, very well indeed. Why not me?)

Lauren F. Winner

#25. When Facebook acquired Oculus, the game changed immediately. You saw big companies jumping in. You saw people like Google getting fully committed, and then Microsoft came along with HoloLens - there was a lot of stuff that people were doing before, but now the space really ignited.

Brendan Iribe

#26. And hey-the psychiatrist in the show is Italian also. So people are going to focus on what they want to focus on. There's not much you can do about that.

Edie Falco

#27. For most people, I edit. Most people are definitely getting along on the Cliffs Notes.

Suzanne Finnamore

#28. Institutions that adopt systems and use them in certified ways in 2011 and 2012 could getting about $50,000 per doctor in total payments by being meaningful users of certified EHR technology over the period from 2011 to 2016.

Fred Trotter

#29. We don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note. Only notes that are different can harmonize. The same is true with people.

Steve Goodier

#30. People getting along doesn't sell very well in the news. I find that to be deeply depressing. I don't even talk about it on stage, because it would take too long to explain.

Mike Birbiglia

#31. I loathe conflict, and I loathe not getting along well with people, so I always try very hard to be on the best terms with the people I work with.

Joan Collins

#32. People who think that Sylvia Plath was a poor, sensitive poet are not getting that she had great amounts of ambition and anger that moved her along, or she wouldn't have been able to fight against that depression to produce such an incredible body of work by the age of thirty.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#33. To be yourself is in many ways to be inconvenient to others. Only placaters and appeasers get along with other people all the time and that's not really getting along with anyone. That's just self erasure.

Stefan Molyneux

#34. Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life - there, if one must speak out, the real man.

Marcus Aurelius

#35. She was not a half. She was wholly her own.

Renee Ahdieh

#36. In practice, there is nothing especially dramatic in people getting along well together.

Margaret Halsey

#37. Climbing has worked for me in a number of ways on Capitol Hill. I'm much more inclined to look at what people do, as opposed to what they say. Also, it's about working together - we're all on the rope together, and you don't get to cut the rope if you're not getting along with someone.

Mark Udall

#38. I feel like people have more in common than the news reports. People getting along doesn't sell very well in the news. I find that to be deeply depressing.

Mike Birbiglia

#39. The citizen must have high ideals, and yet he must be able to achieve them in
practical fashion.

Theodore Roosevelt

#40. A lot of cable television is shot on a single camera. Our eyes are more trained to that. It takes the camera off the crane, away from observing the action, to becoming a character in the story along with everyone else. People are getting used to that.

A. J. Bowen