53 Most Inspiring Interpersonal Skill Quotes (SOCIAL)

Top 10 Most Famous Interpersonal Skill Quotes (BEST)

“The people with whom you work reflect your own attitude. If you are suspicious, unfriendly and condescending, you will find theses unlovely traits echoed all about you. But if you are on your best behavior, you will bring out the best in the persons with whom you are going to spend most of your working hours.
Beatrice Vincent

Your career success in the workplace of today - independent of technical expertise - depends on the quality of your people skills. - Max Messmer — Your **career** **success** in the workplace of today – independent of technical expertise – depends on the quality of your people skills. – Max Messmer

The internet and online communication is the window into your world - but real life, in person communication connection is the door. - Rasheed Ogunlaru — The internet and online **communication** is the window into your world – but real **life**, in person communication / connection is the door. – **Rasheed Ogunlaru**

“A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.”
Stephen Covey

If the way you've been treating me is a mark of fondness, maybe you'd better take a fresh look at your interpersonal communication skills. - Susan Elizabeth Phillips — If the way you’ve been treating me is a mark of fondness, maybe you’d better take a fresh look at your interpersonal communication skills. – Susan Elizabeth Phillips

How you treat the one reveals how you regard the many, because everyone is ultimately a one. - Stephen Covey — How you treat the one reveals how you regard the many, because everyone is ultimately a one. – Stephen Covey

“Believe it or not, Marshal, I believe in talk therapy, basic interpersonal skills. I have this radical idea that if you treat a patient with respect and listen to what he’s trying to tell you, you just might reach him.”
Dennis Lehane

The less you speak, the more you will hear. - Alexander Solzhenitsyn — The less you speak, the more you will hear. – Alexander Solzhenitsyn

The challenge that many people face when interacting with others is that they lack the necessary interpersonal skills needed to be effective. - Robert W. Lucas — The **challenge** that many people face when interacting with others is that they lack the necessary interpersonal skills needed to be effective. – Robert W. Lucas

Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That's why they look alike. - Daniel Goleman — **Empathy** and social skills are social **intelligence**, the interpersonal part of **emotional intelligence**. That’s why they look alike. – Daniel Goleman

14 Thought-Provoking Interpersonal Skill Quotes

“In 1970 the top three skills required by the Fortune 500 were the three Rs: reading, writing, and arithmetic. In 1999 the top three skills in demand were teamwork, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills. We need schools that are developing these skills.”
Linda Darling-Hammond

The key to healthy communication is having a willingness to lay aside our defensive tendencies and accept responsibility for our part of the relationship. - Asa Don Brown — The key to **healthy** communication is having a willingness to lay aside our defensive tendencies and accept **responsibility** for our part of the relationship. – Asa Don Brown

Arguing with a fool proves there are two. - Doris M. Smith — Arguing with a fool proves there are two. – Doris M. Smith

“Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It’s not what they’re not doing or should be doing that’s the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is “out there,” stop yourself. That thought is the problem.”
Stephen Covey

I teach people how to treat me by what I will allow. - Stephen Covey — I teach people how to treat me by what I will allow. – Stephen Covey

Conflict is not necessarily bad. If you can avoid taking conflict personally, it is actually a way to get better decisions and better results. - Sonali Sinha — Conflict is not necessarily bad. If you can avoid taking conflict personally, it is actually a way to get better decisions and better results. – Sonali Sinha

“While most of today’s jobs do not require great intelligence, they do require greater frustration tolerance, personal discipline, organization, management, and interpersonal skills than were required two decades and more ago. These are precisely the skills that many of the young people who are staying in school today, as opposed to two decades ago, lack.”
James P. Comer

Words of comfort skillfully administered are the oldest therapy known to man. - Louis Nizer — Words of comfort skillfully administered are the oldest therapy known to man. – Louis Nizer

Great teaching requires incredible talent and dedication, strong intellectual ability and interpersonal skill, real discipline and empathy. - Bruce Rauner — Great **teaching** requires incredible **talent** and **dedication**, strong intellectual ability and interpersonal skill, real discipline and empathy. – Bruce Rauner

“Here is just the beginning of a list of skills that exam results cannot possibly hope to reflect: interpersonal skills, the ability to entertain, how articulate we are as speakers, our ability to work as part of a team, the ability to deal with challenges and invention.”
Alexandra Adornetto

“Interpersonal experience shapes the mind as it continues to develop throughout the lifespan. Interactions with the environment, especially relationships with other people, directly shape the development of the brain’s structure and function.”
Daniel J. Siegel

“Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.”
Jim Rohn

“We are all born with an innate understanding of interpersonal equity – the idea that if you lend me your rake today, I’ll respond in kind when you come to borrow my shovel tomorrow. Or nearly all of us are born with that. Psychopaths aren’t.”
Jeffrey Kluger

“One of the most interesting things about the cognitive theory is the idea that anger and interpersonal conflict ultimately result from a mental con. In other words, you’re telling yourself things that aren’t entirely true when you’re fighting with someone.”
David D. Burns

8 Wise Interpersonal Skills Quotes that Will Improve Your Relationships

“To a degree that we seldom realize, we depend upon the participation of others in our lives, and upon our own participation in the lives of others. Our success and effectiveness as persons is based upon this participation, and upon an ability to maintain a controlling competence in communicating with others.”
Roy Wagner

Relationships are an art form created by two or more individuals who have similar or complementary visions, passions, and ambitions. - Asa Don Brown — Relationships are an art form created by two or more individuals who have similar or complementary visions, **passions**, and **ambitions**. – Asa Don Brown

Nothing is more exciting and bonding in relationships than creating together. - Stephen Covey — Nothing is more exciting and bonding in relationships than creating together. – Stephen Covey

“Communication is of paramount importance, and one of the most effective ways to cope with anxiety within a relationship. Talking about it openly, honestly and directly with your partner, opens the dialogue and creates a safe space for them to confide in you.”
Susie Ambrose

Love is a verb. Love – the feeling – is the fruit of love, the verb. So love her. Sacrifice. Listen to her. Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm her. - Stephen Covey — **Love** is a verb. Love – the feeling – is the fruit of love, the verb. So love her. Sacrifice. Listen to her. Empathize. **Appreciate**. Affirm her. – Stephen Covey

“What does it mean to have a healthy relationship? It’s such a strangely clinical way of talking about interpersonal dynamics, like you can do a white blood cell count and say, ‘No, it’s not looking good for that one.’ It’s impossible to have a loving relationship in which you never cause pain and no pain ever is caused to you.”
Sally Rooney

“Marriage is a lot of things – a source of love, security, the joy of children, but it’s also an interpersonal battlefield, and it’s not hard to see why: Take two disparate people, toss them together in often-confined quarters, add the stresses of money and kids – now lather, rinse, repeat for the rest of your natural life. What could go wrong?”
Jeffrey Kluger

“Teasing is often healthy and fun, not to mention an important part of interpersonal and individual development. But when it’s abused, ‘just kidding’ contains a disturbing logic: If I didn’t mean it, it didn’t happen.”
Rachel Simmons

6 Interpersonal Skills Quotes To Elevate Your Connection at Work

“A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.”
Russell H. Ewing

There are two types of people - those who come into a room and say 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say 'Ah, there you are'. - Frederick Collins — There are two types of people – those who come into a room and say ‘Well, here I am!’ and those who come in and say ‘Ah, there you are’. – Frederick Collins

People who are toxic are rarely aware of their own toxicity. - Asa Don Brown — People who are toxic are rarely aware of their own toxicity. – Asa Don Brown

“There is no fundamental social change by being simply of individual and interpersonal actions. You have to have organizations and institutions that make a fundamental difference.”
Cornel West

Treat them all the same by treating them differently. - Stephen Covey — Treat them all the same by treating them differently. – Stephen Covey

“Authority is not a quality one person ‘has’, in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.”
Erich Fromm

4 Interpersonal Skills Quotes for Families

“In the family, in interpersonal relationships, even in friendship, faith is tremendously important. If you have a partner who you believe is a good person, then it is your duty to have faith in them until the end, despite the fact that they might have done some bad things. And you have to support and believe in your children.”
Greg Graffin

I'm more interested in interpersonal relationships - between lovers families, siblings. That's why I write about how we treat each other. - Terry McMillan — I’m more interested in interpersonal relationships – between lovers families, siblings. That’s why I write about how we treat each other. – Terry McMillan

“When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home’s potential for positive influence.”
Stephen Covey

“Certainly, people can get along without siblings. Single children do, and there are people who have irreparably estranged relationships with their siblings who live full and satisfying lives, but to have siblings and not make the most of that resource is squandering one of the greatest interpersonal resources you’ll ever have.”
Jeffrey Kluger

5 Interpersonal Skills Quotes for the Digital Age

“You’re talking about a younger generation, Generation Y, whose interpersonal communication skills are different from Generation X. The younger generation is more comfortable saying something through a digital mechanism than even face to face.”
Erik Qualman

Interpersonal skills are like database management systems being a good listener is about routing incoming requests to an appropriate service handler. - John Alejandro King — Interpersonal skills are like database management systems: being a good listener is about routing incoming requests to an appropriate service handler. – John Alejandro King

“When 60 – 70 percent of all interpersonal conversations and relationships exist through text messaging or social media, it’s hard to get advice from a parent who didn’t grow up in that world.”
Sam Levinson

“I want children who can make eye contact. I want children who know how to resolve conflicts with their peers. I want children who understand the dynamics of interpersonal relationships that are physical and tactile. I do not want children that only know how to interface with the world through a screen.”
Chamath Palihapitiya

“I think there’s a worry that an excessive use or an almost exclusive use of text and emails means that as a society we’re losing some of the ability to build interpersonal communication that’s necessary for living together and building a community.”
Vincent Nichols

6 Interpersonal Skill Quotes That Will Make You Think

“I have always been a bit of an introvert. In fact, my dad used to force me to meet people so that my interpersonal skills improve. As an individual, I was happiest when left alone.”
Ashwin Sanghi