Supportive Networks Quotes

If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard?

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Kindness is the connection that links us all together and strengthens the bonds within our communities, neighborhoods, and families.

Isn’t it amazing how much good people can do for each other when you give them the opportunity to help?

To make a system stronger, we need to make stronger relationships.

To pursue success effectively, you must build supportive relationships that will help you work toward your goals. To build those relationships, you need to trust others; and to earn their trust, you in turn must learn to be trustworthy.

This is what I find most magnetic about successful givers: they get to the top without cutting others down, finding ways of expanding the pie that benefit themselves and the people around them. Whereas success is zero-sum in a group of takers, in groups of givers, it may be true that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

What we will be seeking... for the rest of our lives will be large, stable communities of like-minded people, which is to say relatives. They no longer exist. The lack of them is not only the main cause, but probably the only cause of our shapeless discontent in the midst of such prosperity.

The worst thing someone gets is isolated. Isolation is the darkest part of any condition. You can live with almost any condition if you're living within a community of people who can share a common understanding. We create these communities from women who share common conditions, and those mothers carry each other through.

One way Great Teams can connect their team members together is through the glue of mentoring.

Every organism requires an environment of friends, partly to shield it from violent changes, and partly to supply it with its wants.

We need to acknowledge that families come in multiple shapes and sizes, that love is not a finite asset, and that caregiving involves more than a genetic imperative.

For in order that man may do well, whether in the works of the active life, or in those of the contemplative life, he needs the fellowship of friends.

Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.