Avenues to Personal Relationships

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Here are some quotations Avenues to Success recently e-mailed to its subscribers reflecting the Avenue of Personal Relationships. You'll also find links to websites of interest to college students, their parents, and everyone else.

Personal Relationships is one of the six crucial Avenues that today's college students need to Succeed. The other five Avenues are:

* Courage
* Honor
* Integrity
* Leadership
* Persistence


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Personal Relationship Quotes for College Students *

* While the quotes are selected with college students in mind, everyone can pick up something from them.

Here are 25 of the latest Personal Relationships Avenues. To see more quotes about personal relationships, click on to Avenues to Success Notes and select Quotes: Personal Relationships in the Categories listing in the sidebar.

I update this list quite frequently, deleting the oldest, and adding the newest posting at the end.
  • The easiest way to find people's hot buttons is to let them ask questions of you. People will ask you very specific questions. When they start giving you details, you're beginning to make a connection with them.
    - Brian William, Co-founder of a web systems development firm
  • Be compassionate and take responsibility for each other. If we only learned this lesson the world would be so much a better place.
    - Mitchell Albom, Born 1958, American author
  • A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
    - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (often credited as Miss Mulock or Mrs. Craik), 1826-1887, English novelist and poet
  • It only takes about three minutes to write a thank-you note, fold it into an envelope and mail it, but the power of it is awesome.
    - Wanda Loskot, Business coach
  • Be nice to people on your way up, because you'll meet 'em on your way down.
    - Wilson Mizner,1876-1933, American playwright, raconteur, and entrepreneur
  • To use bitter words, when kind words are at hand is like picking unripe fruit when the ripe fruit is there.
    -Thiruvalluvar, c. 1st century BCE, Tamil poet, between the second century BC and the eighth century AD.
    Thiruvalluvar
    Image source: The Divine Life Society
  • Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
    - James Russell Lowell, 1819-1891, American poet, editor, and diplomat
  • I have never gone to sleep with a grievance against anyone. And, as far as I could, I have never let anyone go to sleep with a grievance against me.
          - Abba Agathon, 4th to 5th Century, Egyptian monk

    Egypte:
    Woestijnvader
    Abba Agathon
    in de vierde eeuw

    Abba Agathon
    Abba Agathon Hongaars Orthodokse Kerk

    Image source: Pylgeralmanak.nl/

  • Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
    - Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862, American essayist, naturalist, poet
  • Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.
    - Frank A. Clark, 1911-1991, American writer
  • Life isn't about the car you drive, the home you live in, your social status or the size of your bank account... it's about how many hearts you touch.
    - Unknown
  • You get more than you give when you give more than you get.
    - Unknown
  • If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who you hate.
    - Nikka - age 6Friends and Enemies
    Drawing submitted by David on August 15, 2006 to Fourth Pig
    Image use with permission from Fourth Pig/Dry Erase Artwork



  • We are others harvest
    We are each others business
    We are each others magnitude
    And bond.

    - Gwendolyn Brooks, 1917-2000, American poet
    The First African American to Win a Pulitzer Prize for Literature
  • The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
    - William Hazlitt, 1778-1830, English noted for literary criticism
  • Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
    - Og Mandino, 1923-1996, American Motivational Author, Speaker
  • A Hug



    A hug is the shortest distance between friends.

         - Unknown



    Image source: An e-mail from my brother

  • As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
    - Nelson Mandela, Born 1918, South African statesman, 1993 Nobel Prize for Peace
    Nelson Mandela Image source: Mihjr Bose's Blog
  • A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.
    - Diogenes, 412?-323 BCE, Greek philosopher
  • You will never understand another until you have walked a mile in his moccasins.
    - Dakota Sioux saying
  • The Lorax

    Image source: The Photobucket.com

         - Dr. Seuss, author and illustrator (1904-1991)

  • Acquaintance, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
    - Ambrose Bierce, 1842-1914?, American editorialist, journalist, short-story writer, fabulist and satirist
  • He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.
    - Dante, 1265-1321, Italian poet
  • There is only one thing better than making a new friend, and that is keeping an old one.
    - Elmer G. Letterman, 1897 - 1982 American businessman and author
  • It is hard for a fellow to keep a chip on his shoulder if you allow him to take a bow.
    - Billy Rose, American Broadway producer and entertainment entrepreneur
    Billy Rose

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The Ivy Files
A blog for high school students and twenty-somethings navigating life, work, and school.
How to Succeed in School and College
How do you want to spend your life? Do you want to spend it having the things you want and doing the things you enjoy?A good education can help you to have what you want throughout the rest of your life. Flunking your education, on the other hand, could mean that you spend your life in dead-end jobs.
College students miss dog more than dad
Need I say more!
College Students Fail When They Ask For Jobs Instead Of Relationships l
Some skills to learn when looking to alumni (and others) for networking and jobs.
Why I decided to go to my college reunion - and why it made me happy.
A blog posting about the unexpected joy of attending a college class reunion. We unexpectedly develop relationships that really connected.
Teach Online: College students think they're so special
Study finds alarming rise in narcissism, self-centeredness in 'Generation Me'

NEW YORK - Today's college students are more narcissistic and self-centered than their predecessors, according to a comprehensive new study by five psychologists who worry that the trend could be harmful to personal relationships and ...

This blog is a good site for teachers.
East Coast F'Lakers: Narcissistic college students
This post demonstrates the importance of how a student's personal relationships will affect his career success.
College Professor Relationships: Bad In-Class Behavior
- StateUniversity.com Blog gives good personal relationship advice to students with respect to the people trying to teach them. Remember, also that the actions and behavior of the student goes beyond influencing the professor's attitude towards him, it also affects the others in the classroom.

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In St. Louis, race affects politics, the economy, personal relationships, education ? virtually every important aspect of community life. Yet it's difficult to talk honestly and productively about race. In Race, Frankly, the Beacon ... You must establish certain things to address disparities, such as scholarships to help more African Americans go to college and get specialized training and help African-American physicians raise the health standards of all Americans. ...
Managing Relationships In College: Personal Enrichment – Section APR2C
Managing Relationships In College: Personal Enrichment. On Thursday, 10/8/09, at 12:45-2pm I attended the ?managing relationships in college? workshop. As a whole, the workshop was mainly about the big step into college and how we ...

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