Friendly Quotes

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
Martin Luther

Marriage, Good, Lovely

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
Mahatma Gandhi

Religion, Business, True

We try to be real nice and friendly to people, but sometimes they take advantage of that.
Layne Staley

Nice, Real, Try

Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Work, Hard, Beliefs

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.
Abdul Kalam

Work, Best, Alone

I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.
Soren Kierkegaard

Regret, Two, Advice

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Friendship, Sympathy, Words

Be friendly to everyone. Those who deserve it the least need it the most.
Bo Bennett

Everyone, Deserve

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.
Truman Capote

Friendship, Friends, Pretty

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
Bertrand Russell

Happiness, Rather, Far

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
Samuel Butler

Until, Eat, Animal

As a person, I'm pretty much the same except that I've come to terms with who my real friends and supporters are. I don't get particularly friendly with new people at first go.
Sanjay Dutt

Real, Person, Friends

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
Joseph Addison

Health, Best, Mind

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?
Bertrand Russell

Successful, Feeling, Why

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
Agnes Repplier

Humor, Tolerance, Less

Hard though it may be to accept, remember that guilt is sometimes a friendly internal voice reminding you that you're messing up.
Marge Kennedy

Hard, May, Remember

Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead.
Charles M. Schwab

Life, Happy, Everyone

It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness and generosity. It is for you to observe her with renewed and friendly attention.
Pope John XXIII

Work, Her, Attention

We're really quite nice and friendly, but everyone has a beastly side to them, don't they?
Sid Vicious

Nice, Everyone, Quite

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?
Virginia Woolf

Women, Men, Why

A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.
Jean Genet

Great, Away, Wind

We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can't relate by talking to a group of friendly students, he'll never be a competent teacher.
William Glasser

Teacher, Group, Talking

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.
Hermann Hesse

Time, Home, Whole

A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table.
Jean Kerr

Good, Job, Divorce

May joy and good fellowship reign, and in this manner, may the Olympic Torch pursue its way through ages, increasing friendly understanding among nations, for the good of a humanity always more enthusiastic, more courageous and more pure.
Pierre de Coubertin

Good, Humanity, May

I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.
Lee Iacocca

Leadership, Important, Hands

Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship.
William Glasser

Education, Teacher, Bad

Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.
Gertrude Stein

Suspicious, Deals, Foreigner

In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
W. Somerset Maugham

Time, Night, Country

I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.
Ben Hogan

Friends, Play, Sometimes

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