Interpersonal Impact Quotes

The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.

The better the person you're with, the better you're going to be because they're giving you so much more.

Your life is about everyone whose life you touch, and it is about the way in which you touch them.

While you are alone you are entirely your own master and if you have one companion you are but half your own, and the less so in proportion to the indiscretion of his behavior.

People steal into one's consciousness and occupy what seems, in retrospect, to have been their place all along.

Every contact you make with everyone you meet will help them or hinder them on their journey to heaven.

No matter how brief an encounter you have with anybody, you both change.

If you're with a close friend, your anger may raise his blood pressure as well as your own, whereas loving feelings may lower blood pressure in both of you.

How we treat other people changes them, but even more so, how we treat other people changes us.

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.

Everyone we interact with is changed forever. The only questions are: How will they be different (and how different will they be), and how will we be different (and how different will we be) as a result?

Anyone we come in contact with, we either offer them life, or we drain them.

Civil society rests on moral relationships. They are covenantal rather than contractual. They are brought about not by governments but by us a husbands and wives, parents, friends and citizens, and by the knowledge of what we do and what we are makes a difference to those around us. (...) Renewing society's resources of moral energy is the program, urgent but achievable.

When one is frank, one's very presence is a compliment.

Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.

Positive thinking is more than just a tagline. It changes the way we behave. And I firmly believe that when I am positive, it not only makes me better, but it also makes those around me better.

We're kind of influenced by all the different people we meet.

I was so afraid that we would just keep colliding over and over again if we stayed together, and that eventually the impact would break me. But now I know I am like the blade and he is like the whetstone- I am too strong to break so easily, and I become better, sharper, every time I touch him.

You think you know your possibilities. Then other people come into your life and suddenly there are so many more.

I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen. It's scary to think about. Point of reference again. When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.

Just as we leave the effects of our work behind in results, we leave the effects of our interactions with people in their hearts, minds, and souls.

There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.

I think we are affected by others in all kinds of ways. I do understand what it's like to wish to control the conditions under which we can be affected by other human beings, but none of us really are.

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.