Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

When you are in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude. We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Attitude
• Conflict
• Damaging

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• When you are in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude. We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Attitude
  • Conflict
  • Damaging