Dealing with people quotes

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◆ You must look into other people as well as at them.

- Lord Chesterfield100

◆ A good deed is never lost: he who sows courtesy reaps friendship; and he who plants kindness gathers love.

- Basil100

◆ It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.

- George Eliot99

◆ Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.

- William Ellery Channing99

◆ Learn to regard the souls around you as parts of some grand instrument. It is for each of us to know the keys and stops, that we may draw forth the harmonies that He sleeping in the silent octaves.

- Anonymous99

◆ If evil be said of thee, and if it be true, correct thyself; if it be a lie, laugh at it.

- Epictetus99

◆ In many things it is not well to say, "Know thyself"; it is better to say, "Know others."

- Menander99

◆ The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.

- Lord Bacon99

◆ He who sedulously attends, pointedly asks, calmly speaks, coolly answers and ceases when he has no more to say is in possession of some of the best requisites of man.

- Johann Casper Lavater99

◆ Men are more mindful of wrongs than of benefits.

- Proverb99

◆ A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence; which costs us nothing.

- John Tillotson99

◆ It requires less character to discover the faults of others than is does to tolerate them.

- J. Petit Senn99

◆ Do not forget small kindnesses and do not remember small faults.

- Chinese Proverb99

◆ Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

- Henry David Thoreau99

◆ Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

- Robert Louis Stevenson99