Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

I always think it's a good policy to like the people who like you.

I want people to get to know me, because I want to get to know them.

Just be nice, take genuine interest in the people you meet, and keep in touch with people you like. This will create a group of people who are invested in helping you because they know you and appreciate you.

I believe in order to make a friend, you have to be a friend.

What I'm talking about, what I strongly suggest to people, is that they should get closer to the people they're with.

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.

When you relate to a person and are being friendly, it's easy to do a scene without looking uncomfortable.

One can win the attention and time and cooperation of even the most sought-after people by becoming genuinely interested in them.

Those whom you can make like themselves better will, I promise you, like you very well.

If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.

An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

All you need to do to be my friend is like me.

Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people, than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

At least I had that, one guy understood me.

I'm a talkative person because I like to get to know a person and I like you to get to know me.

I like people.

I love being around people who care about me, and I care about them.

If you shake your fist, the other guy will shake his too. But if you extend your hand to shake their hand, then they will extend theirs also, and you've made a friend.

With everybody that I've met, there's always been something I've learned about them that I like.

If you don't respect me you're not gonna get that respect back.

To be treated well in places where you don't expect to be treated well, to find things in common with people you thought previously you had very, very little in common with, that can't be a bad thing.

In my experience with women that I've dated and my wife now, is you have to know what they care about. And even if you aren't a huge fan of it, you still have to have interest in it and it has to be genuine because women do it for men all the time.