You don't have time to convince everybody to like you. Your time is too great to fight battles that don't matter. If someone doesn't praise you, they don't matter. If someone leaves you, you didn't need them. I love loyal people, I love the ones that I know will accept me through every decision I make. When you realize that you can't please everybody, you're going to see new seasons of growth, new opportunities, and God will take you to new places that you've never even dreamed of. Your destiny is too great to be wasted on other people who won't accept you.

—Unknown

At some point you will realize that you have done too much for someone or something, that the only next possible step to do is to stop. Leave them alone. Walk away. It's not like you're giving up, and it's not like you shouldn't try. It's just that you have to draw the line of determination from desperation. What is truly yours would eventually be yours, and what is not, no matter how hard you try, will never be.

Watch out for people who have a situational value system, who can turn the charm on and off depending on the status of the person they are interacting with"¦Be especially wary of those who are rude to people perceived to be in subordinate roles.

—Bill Swanson, former CEO Raytheon

Sometimes people say things they don't mean or do things they can't take back. Sometimes we do things we can't take back. What I have done is who I am. But what I have done is not who I will be. Unburden yourself from the mistakes of the past. And when you do your heart grows stronger.