Quotes About Positive Relationships

#1. I thought buying at the local market would be an excellent way to build positive relationships with the local villagers.

Eric Greitens

#2. The relational leader operates not by being known by everyone, but by authentically creating positive relationships with people around her.

Scott K. Edinger

#3. I think we pursue positive relationships whether or not they bring us engagement or happiness.

Martin Seligman

#4. So also in a marriage or in helping a teenager through a difficult identity crisis - there is no quick fix, where you can just move in and make everything right with a positive mental attitude and a bunch of success formulas.

Stephen Covey

#5. Leadership means you see the best in people and coach them to success. Leadership means you are the most positive person you know and an individual dedicated to building relationships.

Robin S. Sharma

#6. When you are your own best friend, you don't endlessly seek out relationships, friendships, and validation from the wrong sources because you realize that the only approval and validation you need is your own.

Mandy Hale

#7. A positive mental attitude can improve your health, enhance your relationships, increase your chances of success, and add years to your life.

Frank Sonnenberg

#8. Sometimes you are forced to defend your beliefs. Sometimes you are forced to look at relationships that aren't positive anymore. There are times when I have had to make peace with the fact that I am at war. And sometimes you have to fight those who do not want love to conquer all.

Tori Amos

#9. Clearly, there aren't enough positive moments or interactions happening in the workplace. As a result, our economy suffers, companies suffer, and individual relationships suffer.

Tom Rath

#10. Never lose sight of the people who are the foundation of the future you are working to build.

Carlos Wallace

#11. Shapes that contain no inner components of positive/negative relationships will function better with other shapes of the same nature.

Keith Haring

#12. We set the standard of how we want to be treated. Our relationships are reflections of the relationships we have with ourselves.

Iyanla Vanzant

#13. The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series, was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought, for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered.

Walter Rudolf Hess

#14. Just as the rain carries positive ions, so does change make you more apt to experience love with an expansive heart.

Julieanne O'Connor

#15. Relationships with negative people are simply tedious encounters with porcupines. You don't have the remote knowledge how to be close to them without quills being shot in your direction.

Shannon L. Alder

#16. Develop new stories from new positive experiences and relationships - the experiences of your emerging new self!

Bryant McGill

#17. Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake & help us see we are worth so much more than we're settling for.

Mandy Hale

#18. I rolled the ball of muffin and I waited and after my mother said, "That you should really take a multivitamin," my father threw up his hands in disgust, and I was positive I had no family at all, certain it was not my mother but the solar wind that carried me into the universe.

Alison Espach

#19. Peace is not about who you can live with, but who you can't live without.

Shannon L. Alder

#20. An abuser isn't abusive 24/7. They usually demonstrate positive character traits most of the time. That's what makes the abuse so confusing when it happens, and what makes leaving so much more difficult.

Miya Yamanouchi

#21. I only say this because a positive evolution happened in my life when I realized healthy relationships happen best between healthy people.

Donald Miller

#22. Better to put your heart on the line, risk everything, and walk away with nothing than play it safe. Love is a lot of things, but "safe" isn't one of them.

Mandy Hale

#23. Don't waste your time trying to explain yourself to people that are committed to misunderstanding you. Instead, commit your time to explaining who they are to them. When you get a person to see the positive similarities you share, it begins to restore the loss of respect between you.

Shannon L. Alder

#24. Release your past into the universe and embrace your future with opened arms.

Delma Pryce

#25. You can't prepare for a positive relationship while your in a negative one.

Lenon Honor

#26. In order to help children make the most of their education, parents must begin to relinquish control and focus on three goals: embracing opportunities to fail, finding ways to learn from that failure, and creating positive home-school relationships.

Jessica Lahey

#27. Look for the positive qualities in your client's negative behavior.

Marilyn Suttle

#28. If we are to feel the positive feelings of love, happiness, trust, and gratitude, we periodically also have to feel anger, sadness, fear, and sorrow.

John Gray

#29. We laughed together. It's so lovely laughing with a man. It feels positive. Relaxed ...

James Lusarde

#30. Thinking about anger in positive terms is alien in most people's experiences. However, a healthy expression of anger is a component for building and maintaining successful relationships!

David W. Earle

#31. The wonderful, beautiful thing that happens when you rid yourself of the things that don't see your worth? You make space in your life for all the glorious things you deserve.

Mandy Hale

#32. Not everything in life has to be about finding "The One." Sometimes a girl just wants to have fun.

Mandy Hale

#33. Optimal sculpting of key neural networks through healthy early relationships allows us to think well of ourselves, trust others, regulate our emotions, maintain positive expectations, and utilize our intellectual and emotional intelligence in moment-to-moment

Louis Cozolino

#34. Positive words are the glue that holds relationships together.

Tom Rath

#35. Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods.

Genevieve Gorder

#36. Find yourself first ... like yourself first ... love yourself FIRST ... & friendship & love will naturally find YOU.

Mandy Hale

#37. P is positive emotion, E is engagement, R is relationships, M is meaning and A is accomplishment. Those are the five elements of what free people chose to do. Pretty much everything else is in service of one of or more of these goals. That's the human dashboard.

Martin Seligman

#38. All positive interactions with other human beings involve, to some degree, the experience of visibility
that is, the experience of being seen and understood.

Nathaniel Branden

#39. Maybe he was old-fashioned, but to him a couple meant a strong bond, with positive and negative charges constantly arcing between them.

Stewart O'Nan

#40. I found the sections on aging, relationships, and procrastinating especially helpful. I really found the tips and suggestions very helpful, inspiring, positive, and motivating. Yes, I would definitely recommend it.

Karen Lewis

#41. Positive, affirming relationships bring great pleasure while poor relationship brings great pain. Greatest happiness found in good relationships, greatest pain found in bad relationships

Gary Chapman

#42. Some people think that it's okay to be downright nasty to people they love. It is not okay. Nasty is never called for, and it's certainly not sweet, useful, nor positive.

Cathy Burnham Martin

#43. Find a positive lesson and positive reason for all of your personal relationships. Accentuate the blessings and knowledge gained from each.

Denis Waitley

#44. When faith replaces fear, the gates open for you to receive enough money, optimal health, and genuine relationships.

Charles F. Glassman

#45. You can have meaning, accomplishment, engagement and good relationships, even if you are dull on the positive affect side.

Martin Seligman

#46. In many situations, the only thing you can control is your own response. Changing self-talk from negative to positive is an excellent way to manage that response. Anger destroys your health and relationships.

Maddy Malhotra

#47. We seek the fulfilment of strong romantic relationships and friendships, yet striving too hard to achieve security in such relationships stifles them; their flourishing depends on a certain degree of not being protected, of being open to experiences both negative and positive.

Oliver Burkeman

#48. True friends are not mirrors where we can always see ourselves reflected in a positive light.

Shannon L. Alder

#49. Everything we experience in life is designed to shape our characters.

Delma Pryce

#50. Personal freedom and interpersonal relationships in marriage are positive aspects of growth in marriage. At the same time they can pose a serious danger in family harmony and degradation of some of the fundamental values if carried too far.

Anonymous

#51. Random intermittent positive reinforcement can be found in gambling... and bad relationships.

Jose N. Harris

#52. Contrary to popular mythology, the best and most durable relationships are based not on vulnerability or passion but on a conjugation of positive attributes, a meeting of mind, body and soul that is all the more powerful as it is not weighed down with neediness and unreasonable expectation.

Mariella Frostrup

#53. Don't pour a lifetime of effort into a seasonal relationship. Not everyone from the pilot belongs in the finale.

Mandy Hale

#54. Other people are not here to fulfill our needs or meet our expectations, nor will they always treat us well. Failure to accept this will generate feelings of anger and resentment. Peace of mind comes with taking people as they are and emphasizing the positive.

A.S.A Harrison

#55. Sit your affections, your heart and your precious time out on the doorstep without so much as making him ring the doorbell first, and he'll treat you like a doormat. Make him work a little to get next to you, and he won't stop til you're his.

Mandy Hale

#56. We can let go of the person or love or friendship without letting go of the lesson.

Mandy Hale

#57. The greatest testament of a life lived is to be missed when you are gone. It is not something you can plan for or buy ahead of time. It is a sentiment that comes freely from the lives you touch in positive ways.

Brian MacLearn

#58. My dad's gay experiences really had a very positive influence on me and my straight relationships - how to better accept all the weirdness and ambiguity and ups and downs and paradoxes. I knew from the beginning I was writing about love.

Mike Mills

#59. We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our long-term moods. The key to the happy life, it seems, is the good life: a life with sustained relationships, challenging work, and connections to community.

Paul Bloom

#60. In the sex-positive community, I found countless women who were sexually liberated and open, and required only one thing - that they be empowered and in control of the context, because that's how they felt safe enough to truly let go.

Neil Strauss

#61. If a man WANTS to be with you, he will make his actions clear. There won't be any questions, murkiness, cloudiness, or fear.

Mandy Hale

#62. You can love them, forgive them, want good things for them ... but still move on without them.

Mandy Hale

#63. Go into relationships with a positive expectation and looking for God's glory in others.

Kevin Paterson

#64. Translating any insights I have for strangers' lives into positive action in my own has proved a challenge. While I've learned a lot about what everyone else is thinking, I fail miserably to use such knowledge in my private relationships.

Mariella Frostrup

#65. To become a better you, you must be positive towards yourself, develop better relationships, embrace the place where you are.

Joel Osteen

#66. Be a bit of a challenge; not because you're playing games but because you realize you're worth the extra effort.

Mandy Hale