Montesquieu Quotes

You have to give love to get love.

Here's the thing: When you become brilliant at listening, people feel that you care about them. When they feel you care about them, they begin to care about you. And when people care about you, your success becomes a part of how they define their success.

Whenever people reach out the hand of friendship towards me, I am not going to refuse that hand.

I have a lot of people I respect and a lot of people I have time for - reciprocity isn't necessary.

There is very little love in this world, and if you give love, you will get it back.

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

I don't think love is a tricky issue at all. Love is best understood when we share: Share time, energy, food, resources, insights, information, whatever. It's usually thought of as something that exists between two people, but that's just because it's easier to see and feel in the space between them. Each person is sharing a lot with the other.

I think I have a certain respect for people, you know. And I guess a lot of times I expect that respect to go both ways.

You can't build anything with a flimsy foundation. Friendship is the foundation.

They always come back when they learn that not every woman's gonna treat them this good.

You give loyalty, you'll get it back. You give love, you'll get it back.

We can only learn to love by loving.

I'm so lucky that I have a great relationship.

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

I hope that people will get to know me and give me the opportunity to get to know them and just respect what I'm doing because I respect how they feel and their thoughts as well.

I am thankful to all the people who have loved and listened to me.

I don't like guys who don't listen.

We've got a lot of friends. We take care of them because they take care of us.

From a relationship perspective, givers build deeper and broader connections.

Don't take your friends for granted or that everyone is going to be OK.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

God has given a great deal to man, but man would like something from man.