Robin Sharma Quotes

You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart.

Leaders touch a heart before they ask for a hand.

If you only talk to a person's head and not their heart people won't listen to you.

There cannot be love without trust and there cannot be trust unless we take the responsibility to act in a way that people can trust us.

Our meeting, touching, accidentally connecting immediately, interwoven hand-in-hand, heart-to-heart.

We think that we all have to like each other before we trust each other and that necessarily is not the case.

Quality relationships are built on principles, especially the principle of trust.

We are more sociable, and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect.

Just as I need other human beings in order to learn from them, so I also need their trust. If we aren't aware of that, if we fail to take it to heart and instead betray other people's trust, things will go badly with us.

The first great real intimacy between two people begins when secrets are told.

I believe love opens people up.

People belong to each other only as long as they both believe. He stopped believing.

To lead yourself, use your head; to lead others, use your heart. Always touch a person's heart before you ask him for a hand.

Companies don't have ideas; only people do. And what motivates people are the bonds and loyalty and trust they develop between each other. What matters is the mortar, not just the bricks.

I never used to understand why people bothered to hold hands as they walked, but then he runs one of his fingertips down my palm, and I shiver and understand it completely

The position does not make you a leader. The title, the promotion, the fancy corner office do not make you a leader. No, it is relationships with people that are the foundation, the very heart of leadership. Have you ever worked for someone you didn't like? It's difficult, isn't it? On the other hand, the leader you will follow anywhere and everywhere is one you know cares about you, and values you. This person has your best interests at heart. It is the leader who comes alongside to help you improve and grow.

But I think if it's the right person, you wouldn't have to work so hard at intimacy. I think—hope—it would just happen naturally. Otherwise, opening up to the wrong person..." I made a face. "Like putting ammo in their hands.

Taking a lady's hand gives her confidence in her physician.

A pleasing personality helps you win friends and influence people. Add character to that formula, and keep those friends and maintain that influence.

I like to touch people's hearts.

It is so important for us to have faith, trust, confidence in one another. It is the only way we can communicate. Without faith there is no communication, there is no love, or if there was a little love it will die without hope, trust, and confidence. Even if it doesn't die right away, it will be so ill, so weak, and so tired that communication will be miserable as well.

The people we most love do become a physical part of us, ingrained in our synapses, in the pathways where memories are created.

Other people have to understand where we are coming from, including our allies. Our allies have taken advantage of us.

That's where peace begins - not just in the plans of leaders, but in the hearts of people. Not just in some carefully designed process, but in the daily connections - that sense of empathy that takes place among those who live together in this land and in this sacred city of Jerusalem.

People come up to me and share very personal and intimate things with me, and I am so touched by all the trust they have in me.