In this post, you will find great Friends Quotes from famous people, such as Henry Ward Beecher, George Clooney, Josephine Langford, Bryan Adams, Colin Morgan. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.
There’s not an instruction manual on how to deal with success, so you just have to rely on having great friends and a good team.
You have to strike while the iron is hot. You have to take downtime to see friends and family, but my passion is acting: pursuing those scary, challenging characters and working with passionate people.
Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
To have my fan club. I am very proud of doing everything. I try to support my parents, friends and fans. I am also proud of my performing in the visual arts, and motion television.
I’ve never felt any sense of competition with anybody, and we’re all friends; we’re all good friends.
Cherish your human connections – your relationships with friends and family.
He makes no friends who never made a foe.
What people don’t understand is joining a gang ain’t bad, it’s cool, it’s fine. When you in the hood, joining a gang it’s cool because all your friends are in the gang, all your family’s in the gang. We’re not just killing people every night, we’re just hanging out, having a good time.
I always thought I wanted to play professionally, and I always knew that to do that I’d have to make a lot of sacrifices. I made sacrifices by leaving Argentina, leaving my family to start a new life. I changed my friends, my people. Everything. But everything I did, I did for football, to achieve my dream.
I entered the diocesan seminary. I liked the Dominicans, and I had Dominican friends. But then I chose the Society of Jesus, which I knew well because the seminary was entrusted to the Jesuits. Three things in particular struck me about the Society: the missionary spirit, community and discipline.
I didn’t get into racing to make friends.
I have a great life, amazing family and friends, so it’s easy for people to be like, ‘What have you got to be sad about?’ But it’s not that; it’s a chemical imbalance in your brain that sometimes needs to be treated.
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
We all started playing football against our best friends, and I can’t remember a moment where, because it was my best friend, I did not want to win against him.
You don’t make peace with your friends. You make peace with your enemies.
I love my living room: it’s the heart of my home where I get to chill and spend time with family and friends.
My biggest support and backbone have been my friends.
I need physics more than friends.
If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
Social media websites are no longer performing an envisaged function of creating a positive communication link among friends, family and professionals. It is a veritable battleground, where insults fly from the human quiver, damaging lives, destroying self-esteem and a person’s sense of self-worth.
Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.
The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits.
I have two homes, like someone who leaves their hometown and/or parents and then establishes a life elsewhere. They might say that they’re going home when they return to see old friends or parents, but then they go home as well when they go to where they live now. Sarajevo is home, Chicago is home.
It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.
Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
I don’t need celebrity friends. I don’t need new friends. I am what I am.
Anyone that has a job that takes them away from home, I think, can understand the difficulties in maintaining consistency, not only with your family and those you love but with your friends.
When I see old friends, I’m very excited.
That’s politics. After six o’clock, we can be friends, but before six, it’s politics.
For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.
To me, new friends, new genres, new person-to person chemistry is the DNA of EDM.
If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
Camp is so universal. It buys that sense of togetherness. You have camp friends that you only see at camp and couldn’t see an entire year.
I was always making new friends, then losing them.
I’m lucky that I’ve never been bullied personally. There are always going to be kids who are mean and say stuff, but the people that matter to you – the people you love, like your parents, your siblings, and your friends – those are the people you should listen to.
I’ve always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important things with and be as affectionate with that person as I would be with a girl.
It’s not that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but it’s your best friends who are your diamonds. It’s your best friends who are supremely resilient, made under pressure and of astonishing value. They’re everlasting; they can cut glass if they need to.
When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.
After I got my gold medal, I thought, ‘This isn’t just me. It belongs to my team, my friends, my family, the fans, everybody who’s impacted my life – this is our gold medal.’ So when someone asks to try it on, I’m like, ‘Sure, why not?’ I might be a little too relaxed about it, but why would I keep it to myself?
Make space in your life for the things that matter, for family and friends, love and generosity, fun and joy. Without this, you will burn out in mid-career and wonder where your life went.
I like comfortable settings. Just somewhere where you can sit and chill and you got your friends and you got drinks and food.
I didn’t tell any of my friends that I wanted to be a comedian, because I was superstitious. I thought if I told people, it wouldn’t happen. So I kept it all in my head for years and years.
My mother had introduced me to a lot of my father’s friends because she believed that I would get to know the guy my dad was better through his friends than just in the hospital visits.
Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.
I’m lucky to have a great support system in my friends and some of my family. If you have those people that you trust, go ahead and fall back into them and let them be your hammock and cocoon and let them embrace you.
A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
I’m kind of mischievous with good friends around.
Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They’re keeping up with their friends and family, but they’re also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They’re connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It’s almost a disadvantage if you’re not on it now.
I wouldn’t wish overnight success on anyone. You have no real friends. Everyone works endless hours at different studios, so far apart. Even on your own lot, relationships were formal and often competitive.
I want to apologize to all of the people I have let down because of my behavior which has reflected badly on my family, friends, co-workers, business associates and others.
I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one’s life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.
I wasn’t popular in high school; I had no friends.
Unfortunately, as I tell my white friends, we, as black people, we’re never going to be successful – not because of you white people but because of other black people. When you’re black, you have to deal with so much crap in your life from other black people.
Fake friends believe in rumors. Real friends believe in you.
I love spending time with my family and friends during the holidays, and my favorite holiday tradition would be the pozole that my mom makes almost every Christmas. It’s the best!
I do have a close circle of friends and I am very fortunate to have them as friends. I feel very close to them I think friends are everything in life after your family. You come across lots of people all the time but you only make very few friends and you have to be true to them otherwise what’s the point in life?
I used to be a classic workaholic, and after seeing how little work and career really mean when you reach the end of your life, I put a new emphasis on things I believe count more. These things include: family, friends, being part of a community, and appreciating the little joys of the average day.
He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.
Of course, my mom is my biggest and loudest cheerleader, and my family and friends are happy for me, but I’m still just Angie, not Angie-the-author-with-this-hyped-up-book. I appreciate that.
It’s always great to see old friends, especially those I have not been able to see in 15 months.
You’ve got to do what’s right, or what you think is right. And you’ve got to make tough decisions. And you’ve got to be willing to take on your friends when you disagree with them.
If you want to do really important things in life and big things in life, you can’t do anything by yourself. And your best teams are your friends and your siblings.
All I want to do when I have time off is to have a laugh with my school friends and go down the pub.
Having a lot of friends and family around you – that’s all a part of wellness.
I’m still friends with all my exes, apart from my husbands.
Being a teen can be tough. Just try to surround yourself with really good friends that really have your back, and also be a really good friend to those who really care about you. If you’re not sure about certain things, talk to your friends that you trust and your family.
It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
It’s wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn’t used to like.
I love grocery shopping when I’m home. That’s what makes me feel totally normal. I love both the idea of home as in being with my family and friends, and also the idea of exploration. I think those two are probably my great interests.
I learned you can’t trust the judgment of good friends.
Kids really don’t care about what their friends look like.
My husband and I get along great. We’re both introverts, and it’s hard to make new friends.
Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
I’m not even on Facebook. I’ve got enough friends I never see. You know how you have a lot of friends you never call? I don’t have time for new friends, and I don’t want to be friends with someone only online.
When I speak out against the guns or against the big corporations, some of my friends say, ‘Oh Yoko, be careful. These people have all the power.’ But, you know, most people don’t speak out because they are frightened.
Jim Carrey and my dad were best friends. He would always be in my house and stuff like that.
One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closes friends; if they seem OK, then you’re the one.
To be honest, I wish I had more mom friends.
If you’re going to think mean things about me or not be a true friend, then we don’t need to be friends.
One might expect that the families of murder victims would be showered with sympathy and support, embraced by their communities. But in reality they are far more likely to feel isolated, fearful, and ashamed, overwhelmed by grief and guilt, angry at the criminal-justice system, and shunned by their old friends.
For a homosexual, he’s one of the nicest guys I ever met. And he’s good at what he does. You know, he’s got leadership ability, and if these people here would listen to him, he would take ’em a long way. But anyway, me and Richard got to be pretty good friends – not in a homosexual way, that’s for sure.
What really motivates people at Facebook is building something that’s worthwhile, that they’re going to be proud to show to friends and family.
There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.
You can’t change the world alone – you will need some help – and to truly get from your starting point to your destination takes friends, colleagues, the good will of strangers and a strong coxswain to guide them.
Whether it’s with my engineers in the team, my home life, or my friends, I don’t like things to get complicated – and one good example would be the steering wheel in my Mercedes Formula 1 car.
There are no friends at cards or world politics.
Let not ambition take possession of you; love the friends of the people, but reserve blind submission for the law and enthusiasm for liberty.
I look for friends who make me laugh.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
There are a lot of people who probably enjoyed ‘Conversations with Friends’ who are part of the system that is actively exploiting other people’s labour. I am sure there are landlords who read it and thought it was a great read. Am I happy that I have given those people 10 hours of distraction? Not really!
Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself – and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is.
Sometimes even my old friends are against me. But it’s important to face your opposition and hear them out.
Dancing along with family members and old friends, especially during a marriage, is a memorable experience.
The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
My friends have said, ‘Wait, you’re pretty, and you sing? What do you mean you’re interested in science?’ I have to just hold my head and go, ‘Do you hear yourself?’ By no means should you ever limit yourself because of what others think or because of their perceptions of what someone looks like in a certain field.
I’ve had many conversations with the Clinton family. We’re friends. It’s hard, very tough. I think on Election Day, everybody felt pretty good. I think the Trump campaign thought they were gonna lose.
No nation has friends only interests.
Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.
I had a wonderful life and was blessed with so many loving people and great friends.
Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.
But in the end it’s still a game of golf, and if at the end of the day you can’t shake hands with your opponents and still be friends, then you’ve missed the point.
Keep going on hikes, keep having your friends in your life, keep that downtime sacred as well because as hard as you work in any job, it’s really nice to have the relaxing de-stressors. Stress is the worst thing. That’s the ultimate demise of any good thing.
I don’t like talking unnecessarily, and my communication skills are zilch. I just can’t converse with people. Maybe it’s because of my stuttering or stammering, but I’m not confident of talking with people. I only talk to very close friends and family.
I had an incredibly full life with my imagination: I used to have all sorts of trolls and things; I had a wonderful world around my toys and invented people. I don’t mean I had imaginary friends; I just had this big imagination thing going on. I didn’t need any imaginary friends, because I had so much other stuff going on.
I’m thankful to my family, friends, and fans for all of their support.
Friendships naturally shift over life. We have different friends for different times in our lives, and sometimes it’s not the best idea to hang on to a friendship to try to make it work if it’s an unhealthy connection.
I used to look like an American flag. The Padre uniform makes me look like a taco. Actually, the transition has been great. I’ve made 25 new friends, and I never thought I wanted to be anything other than a Dodger, but this is fun.
To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.
In football, I don’t have a lot of friends. The people who I really trust, there are not many… Most of the time, I’m alone.
You can never have too many friends.
Don Rickles and I are best friends. I know that might seem strange to those who know Don only by reputation, but somebody has to be his friend. Just to make sure I don’t forget, Don gave me a doormat that sits just outside the front door of my house. It reads: ‘The Newharts: The Rickleses Best Friends.’
Aaah, summer – that long anticipated stretch of lazy, lingering days, free of responsibility and rife with possibility. It’s a time to hunt for insects, master handstands, practice swimming strokes, conquer trees, explore nooks and crannies, and make new friends.
If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends.
Our freedom, our prosperity and our security depend on a proper respect for the fortune of our neighbours, allies and old friends.
I like spending time with my family and friends on my birthday.
I need my friends, I need my house, I need my garden.
I was surprised how supportive my family and friends were in my coming out, and it gave and still gives me hope.
I have to get out of the habit of jumping into relationships with new friends before I really get to know them.
I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls, the right to breathe and the right to vote, the freedom to choose their friends, enjoy the sunshine, and ride on the railroads, uncursed by color; thinking, dreaming, working as they will in a kingdom of beauty and love.
What I do remember about first grade and that year was that it was very lonely. I didn’t have any friends, and I wasn’t allowed to go to the cafeteria or play on the playground. What bothered me most was the loneliness in school every day.
My childhood name that my father gave me, my mother, my grandmother, grandfather, family and friends all call me T.I.P.
I mean I can do it when I’m very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing.
I like the order and simplicity of sports. They have an ending. You can argue with your friends about it, but in the end, you still like sports. I almost love the fantasy world of sports more than the real world.
Whether I’m a bit of an old soul or not, I am who I am, and that doesn’t change, whether I’m with adults or with my friends.
I’ve seen a lot of friends who have a lot of great projects, whether it’s a script or a play or whatever, and it is a great project and they have great people involved, and they can’t make it.
Spying among friends is never acceptable.
I was kind of a misfit, actually. When you’re young, you want to be like everybody else, and I was like nobody else. I couldn’t sit still. I was impulsive. I still am. What is now called a ‘talent’ did not serve me well as a child. I didn’t have friends. I was really an outcast.
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island… to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
Some of my closest friends, the England lads, have played in the Champions League, so it’s a big thing to be there as well.
In Shaquille’s mind, I think I’m always going to be his wife even though that’s not the case. The love is always there and he’s one of my best friends. We have a great time together and our kids love us just being a family.
You need a really solid foundation of friends and family to keep you where you need to be.
A man’s friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage – but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
If my life is of no value to my friends it is of none to myself.
Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
When we’re in that kind of childish space, we’re more genuine and feel more comfortable with our friends.
I have the same friends and the same bad habits.
I had no friends. I worried a lot.
David and Dad didn’t get along too well growing up. I mean we all got along, but it was harder on David, because David wasn’t going to be the son that Dad wanted. But now they’re like best friends.
God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.
I didn’t see conflict during the Vietnam War, but I did lose close friends.
The hardest thing for me was leaving my friends and family behind.
Cyberbullying isn’t real. But bullying and harassment certainly are real. Trust me, friends, I went to school in England. They’ve got bullying down to a fine art. I know, because I was one of its chief architects. I was awful to my fellow schoolboys.
I love coming back home and seeing old friends and family. I would say it keeps me grounded.
I’m honored and humbled to win the Nobel Prize. I thank all my friends for the support and assistance throughout my life.
When I eat with my friends, it is a moment of real pleasure, when I really enjoy my life.
I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don’t accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.
I’ve kind of become used to making new friends.
In politics, there are no friends.
In order to have friends, you must first be one.
Being a teenager is an amazing time and a hard time. It’s when you make your best friends – I have girls who will never leave my heart and I still talk to. You get the best and the worst as a teen. You have the best friendships and the worst heartbreaks.
Choose your friends carefully. It is they who will lead you in one direction or the other.
I am a good boy. Sweet. I love to chill. I have a select set of friends, am big on house music, love Goa. I don’t read much. Though that is one habit I am trying to inculcate.
I met Elton John at an Interview dinner, and we just sort of became friends. He’s got such a wicked sense of humor.
To sing with Led Zeppelin has allowed me to offer the best places I could afford to my family and friends!
We humans can get used to anything. It really is remarkable. The problem is that we often use this glorious ability of ours to stay stuck in mediocrity. Oh, the years we waste adapting to lousy marriages, soul-sucking jobs, being friends with people who are rude to waitresses.
A good motto is: use friendliness but do not use your friends.
I define friendship as a bond that transcends all barriers. When you are ready to expect anything and everything from friends, good, bad or ugly… that’s what I call true friendship.
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
I feel only my friends and family need to know what is happening in my personal life.
What I value most in my friends is loyalty.
When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old.
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
When I was in fifth grade – so, about 11 – my folks moved us to Denmark. And so not only did I have all new friends and all new surroundings, I didn’t even understand what they were talking about, which was very difficult and kind of started me, I think, on my path to animation.
There are a lot of sociopaths running around who are probably our friends, if not us, and we don’t know it.
We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.
As a young boy in a new country, you had to make new friends, and that was really difficult.
Strangely enough, when the Sugababes’ ‘Freak Like Me’ went to number 1, which was built around my ‘Are ‘Friends’ Electric‘ song, I had another song called ‘Rip’ go to number 1 in the Kerrang TV chart, so I was pulling new people in from very different areas of musical interest. That was quite an amazing week.
The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
If a natural disaster strikes your community, reach out to your friends, neighbors, and complete strangers. Lend a helping hand.
If I don’t have friends, then I ain’t got nothing.
When I hit 16, I got a scooter to ride to school. It was bright pink, and I saw on the ownership papers that Jonathan Ross once owned it. My friends slated me for it because of the colour, but it was cool. My father used to ride, and my mother’s boyfriend has a bike, so we’re a bit of a biker family.
I don’t have no friends. I don’t want no friends. That’s how I feel.
To my young friends out there: Life can be great, but not when you can’t see it. So, open your eyes to life: to see it in the vivid colors that God gave us as a precious gift to His children, to enjoy life to the fullest, and to make it count. Say yes to your life.
My friends call me Keith, but you can call me John.
Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.
I can’t stress to you enough how much I can relate to teens being cyberbullied. Something that helps me is looking at old videos of me and my friends from middle school, or videos of my family. I love watching funny videos of my favorite people – it really cheers me up.
Rejection and I are old friends.
I went out with some old friends and we were having fun. A couple of them were very intoxicated. When I went to leave, I refused to let them drive. So when I got pulled over, I was the driver.
Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream – they go together.
If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.
I’ve always really just liked football, and I’ve always devoted a lot of time to it. When I was a kid, my friends would call me to go out with them, but I would stay home because I had practice the next day.
Having the courage to say no when all your friends are saying yes is one of the most difficult things you’ll ever have to do. Doing it, however, is one of the biggest charges you can ever make to your personal battery. I call this ‘won’t power.’
Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to.
It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
Explorations into chemistry were done in our basement, sometimes with friends, and my parents must have had quite a bit of confidence in my abilities when they allowed me to experiment with explosive mixtures.
Where there are friends there is wealth.
Every child’s taste is different. Don’t worry if they’re not reading ‘War and Peace’ at age 12. First, build a good foundation and a positive attitude about reading by letting them pick the stories they enjoy. Make friends with a bookseller or librarian. They are a wealth of information on finding books that kids enjoy.
We know that we are often judged by the company we keep. We know how influential classmates, friends, and other peer groups can be. If any of our companions are prone to be unrighteous in their living, we are better off seeking new associations immediately.
As a child, it was really hard because I’d be thrown into a new school and have to make new friends, or I’d sit in class for months without speaking the language, but as I got older, I welcomed the possibility of discovering new cultures and languages.
Street football is the greatest thing in the world. There is just you and your friends against the rest.
Whenever a man’s friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
I have amazing friends who have led inspirational lives.
Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
I threw my 20th birthday party at Brown, and I didn’t even have to say to anyone not to put pictures on Facebook. Not a single picture went up. That was when I knew I’d found a solid group of friends, and I felt like I belonged.
I love travelling; going to different parts of the world and making new friends is something that I really enjoy.
Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
He who hath many friends hath none.
Hello, friends.’ I’ve had fun with that expression to satisfy the cynics, but it comes from the heart, and I don’t apologize for it. Like my dad – for whom I designed the expression during the 2002 PGA Championship, when he was suffering from Alzheimer‘s disease – I’ve never met a stranger.
I ain’t got no friends.
The best version of surfing is not competing, I think. It’s just… it’s perfect. You’re perfectly present. You’re perfectly in the moment. You’re perfectly not thinking about anything else in the world. You’re just surfing. You’re surfing away with your friends or your family, and that’s it. You’re just there.
Through my writing, I have made new friends and continued to learn about this world of ours in all its wonder, with all its challenges.
Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
I don’t like anybody to be angry with me. I’d rather have friends.
I had some friends that went to this hypnotist to stop smoking, and I kind of love things that seem magical. And I liked that it was in Santa Monica, and I had to go near the ocean to get my brain washed out or whatever. So I went there. And I went on a Thursday, and I got hypnotized.
I started ‘Outer Banks,’ because there’s so much hype around it. I saw one episode and I didn’t really continue, but I got to keep going at it. Two of the actors on there were also in ‘Stranger Things,’ and all my friends always ask, ‘Oh my God, you know Madelyn Cline. She was in ‘Stranger Things’ too.’
I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.
The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.
The fellowship of true friends who can hear you out, share your joys, help carry your burdens, and correctly counsel you is priceless.
I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.
Friends are thieves of time.
You know, true love really matters, friends really matter, family really matters. Being responsible and disciplined and healthy really matters.
You learned the two greatest thing in life, never rat on your friends, and always keep your mouth shut.
If you’re not comfortable with public speaking – and nobody starts out comfortable; you have to learn how to be comfortable – practice. I cannot overstate the importance of practicing. Get some close friends or family members to help evaluate you, or somebody at work that you trust.
You should feel good about making your home nicer for your family and your friends. You should feel great about cooking a good dinner and making a dress for a granddaughter, creating a beautiful birthday party. It’s all part of life.
I make friends with people really easily – that’s one of my best qualities.
Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.
I don’t sit around with my friends and talk about money, ever. On a record, that’s different.
If you love friends, you will serve your friends. If you love community, you will serve your community. If you love money, you will serve your money. And if you love only yourself, you will serve only yourself. And you will have only yourself.
Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
It is always good to make new friends.
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
Have friends. ‘Tis a second existence.
On the choice of friends, Our good or evil name depends.
I think one challenge is that having few women in your work environment makes you feel a little isolated and alone. I’m an extrovert; I like talking to people, and I make friends easily, but if your personality is somewhat different, I think you would struggle to connect with people.
Don’t focus on the negativity. Focus on the positivity and the people that want you to do well; then, do it for them and for yourself. Sometimes I do things for myself. Sometimes I do things for my family. Sometimes I do things for my friends.
I’ve got a really good family; I’ve got great friends around me.
I don’t like politics. I am not aligned to any political party. I have friends in all political parties.
Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.
I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they’re okay, then it’s you.
There were times when close people… Some of my closest friends have left me. People hurt me, so everything fell apart. I didn’t feel like I had anyone on my side or anyone who could understand me. So that’s why I completely fell apart.
I’m the hardest working person I know. I’m 20 years old – is it a crime to want to go out dancing with my friends?
Although I am not Jewish, I have been to many Friday night Shabbats at my friends houses, and I absolutely love it. It’s a great and inspiring tradition to keep the family close.
When my son was growing up, I was always guilty, no matter what I did. Make decisions and be happy with the decisions you’ve made. I tell myself, in the long run, it’s the love, the quality of relationships that you have with your family, your friends and giving back to the community that matters.
I don’t know if it’s just me getting older or if it’s a reflection of times changing, but it just seems to me like among most of my friends and peers, there’s a lot more time being spent at home than out.
I don’t have too many friends. I have only a few people who I really love.
Usually, when I am not working, I mostly hang out with my friends, ride my bike, listen to music, and, occasionally, watch movies.
I get by with a little help from my friends.
I love to look at physically beautiful people, and obviously others do, too. But there’s such a narrow definition of what that is; the people who are my friends in life, the more I get to know them over the years, the more beautiful they are to me.
Though I still have no semblance of a life outside of Nine Inch Nails at the moment, I realize my goals have gone from getting a record deal or selling another record to being a better person, more well-rounded, having friends, having a relationship with somebody.
At every stage of my career I have had interesting and cordial colleagues, some of whom are close friends.
Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
Return to your friends and tell them that we came here with no peaceful intent, but ready for battle, and determined to avenge our own wrongs and set our country free. Let your masters come and attack us: we are ready to meet them beard to beard.
No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not knock those who work with him. Don’t knock your friends. Don’t knock your enemies. Don’t knock yourself.
It says on the back of the Nyquil box, ‘May cause drowsiness.’ It should say, ‘Don’t make any plans, OK? Kiss your family and friends good-bye.’
I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning.
When I’m working, I’m pretty busy with that, but when I’m not, yeah, I like to make music. I sing in jazz bars and stuff, and then I mainly paint every day. It’s kind of like a different side of my mind I like to use, and it keeps the other one fresh, and yeah, writing, I’ve been writing with some friends.
Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
When you live away from your family, your friends and faculty become your family.
I have a heart problem, so I have to simplify my life and be content with memories and friends and music.
You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
Being Puerto Rican, born and raised on the streets of New York, you go, ‘Wow, you’re still friends with your ex, man? Really? That’s weird.’ I don’t play that.
What is the point of me changing? If I became another person, it would be bad. If I acted in a different way with my friends, they would not be happy. It’s important I stay the same.
A lot of my friends are gangsters. Not like gangsters – well, yeah, all sorts of levels of criminality – but not the types that are preying on innocent people. I have no interest in the type of criminality that has no respect for collateral damage.
You find out who your real friends are when you’re involved in a scandal.
My friends and I were wild and we liked to joy-ride.
The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man’s success in life.
It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
Stick to the basics, hold on to your family and friends – they will never go out of fashion.
When we understand the connection between how we live and how long we live, it’s easier to make different choices. Instead of viewing the time we spend with friends and family as luxuries, we can see that these relationships are among the most powerful determinants of our well-being and survival.
My mom and I have always been really close. She’s always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn’t have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.
The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
Some friends of Israel believe that the Palestinians will never, in their hearts, accept a Jewish state in Palestine. Yet Germans and French, Chinese and Japanese, Mexicans and Americans have overcome their once insurmountable differences. Palestinians and Jews also have much to gain from peaceful coexistence.
I have always believed that life is too short for rows and disagreements. Even if I think I’m right, I would prefer to apologize and remain friends rather than win and be an enemy.
People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things – to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today.
It was like a cliche for the parents in my hometown to let their kids watch ‘Friends.’ I had no interest at first, because I could not understand a word.
When you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention. You don’t look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you’re listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.
Every day, I work at not taking this fame thing seriously. Fortunately, I have a great group of friends who help me do this.
Mostly, I just like to write music and spend time with my family and friends and jam.
I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that’s what gets a dinner party off to a fun start.
I mean, really, skateboarding is just going out and having fun with your friends and filming cool tricks and challenging yourself and just really just having a good time. That’s what skateboarding really is.
My 40th birthday I held in an old-age home. My 50th I had at Pravda before it opened in New York. My 60th I had at Pastis. For my 70th, I thought, ‘I don’t need to have a celebrity party this year. I’m going to go take my oldest, closest friends to Paris.’
Turkey is a sovereign state, just like the U.S. We might go to different directions, in terms of our impressions and ideas, but we’ll always remain friends.
Times are hard and friends are few.
I get asked, ‘Who would you really like to work with?’ I’m already working with them. Smart, talented, funny people, good musicians, an extended family, good friends.
If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
All of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.
I’ve been the luckiest man in the world because I’ve had friends, and to have the right friends is everything: people you can depend on, people who tell you the truth if you ask something.
Fame is a funny thing. I like doing normal things. I like going to fairs. I like going to ball games. I like going to Disney World or a big field on the Fourth of July and having picnics with friends. The problem is you’re either worried you’re going to be recognized, or you’re thankful you’re not. It’s always there.
My favorite part of any holiday is spending time with my wonderful family and friends.
I really savor the times of me and all my best friends and family members getting together.
I feel really passionate now that talking with family, friends, or a counsellor is the way to deal with negative situations and difficult times.
I had no friends. I wasn’t there to make friends. I was there to win.
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.
I’m the nicest, most loyal person in the world when it comes to my friends.
It’s all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.
Old friends are best.
Where would you be without friends? The people to pick you up when you need lifting? We come from homes far from perfect, so you end up almost parent and sibling to your friends – your own chosen family. There’s nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing.
You can change friends but not neighbours.
When people show loyalty to you, you take care of those who are with you. It’s how it goes with everything. If you have a small circle of friends, and one of those friends doesn’t stay loyal to you, they don’t stay your friend for very long.
What makes creative people tingle are interesting problems, the chance to impress their friends, and caffeine.
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
I’ve been through so much, especially coming from New Orleans where there was Hurricane Katrina in 2005. I had to pick up. We had to move, make new friends, and I think my family was just strong for me as well because we had to start completely over again.
There are things that I can tell my friends that I just can’t tell my family, just as far as how I’m feeling about things. My friends know me the best in a certain way. I just think old friends are really, really important.
There’s so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I’ve got tons of friends that are doing the right thing by their kids, and doing the right thing as a father – and how come that’s not as newsworthy?
Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
Permission marketing turns strangers into friends and friends into loyal customers. It’s not just about entertainment – it’s about education. Permission marketing is curriculum marketing.
Well, basically I have a lot of friends because I’ve been in the business a long time and worked with a lot of people.
Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
It is better to be deceived by one’s friends than to deceive them.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
We were friends for a year before we started playing music together. We both think it’s pretty important. Tyler‘s my friend before he’s a guy in my band, and when we talk to each other about things, it comes from a friend standpoint, not just a business standpoint.
I don’t necessarily want kids. A lot of our friends are having children and I don’t know if it’s for me. I haven‘t come down hardcore on either side of the argument. I think when people come from a stable family having children becomes a celebration and I’m not sure it would be that way for me.
There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.
Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
I’ve always been fascinated by the difference between the jokes you can tell your friends but you can’t tell to an audience. There’s a fine line you have to tread because you don’t know who is out there in the auditorium. A lot of people are too easily offended.
My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.
It’s fine to have social media that connects us with old friends, but we need tools that help us discover new people as well.
True friends appear less moved than counterfeit.
We don’t have the luxury of time. We spend more because of how we live, but it’s important to be with our family and friends.
A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
You can’t choose your family, but you can choose your friends.
I had no interest in sports so I didn’t make friends in that traditional way where kids are in public school and they go and they join clubs, and play sports. So I kind of had to find my own way to make friends and get attention and so I just was the class clown.
Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.
‘Friday’ is about hanging out with friends, having fun. I felt like it was my personality in that song.
I’d rather have friends who care than friends who agree with me.
God gives us our relatives, thank God we can choose our friends.
I’ll tell you what I’m grateful for, and that’s the clarity of understanding that the most important things in life are health, family and friends, and the time to spend on them.
Everyone has different paths. I’ve been lucky to have a good support system – my family, friends and colleagues to keep me grounded and humble and to keep working hard. I never give up.
Too many Christians have a commitment of convenience. They’ll stay faithful as long as it’s safe and doesn’t involve risk, rejection, or criticism. Instead of standing alone in the face of challenge or temptation, they check to see which way their friends are going.
Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.
Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.
It is not, of course, complete yet – but some sentences were understood this afternoon… I feel that I have at last struck the solution of a great problem – and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid onto houses just like water or gas – and friends converse with each other without leaving home.
Don’t give in to bullying or others making fun of people. Stand up for yourself. Stand up for your friends. Be that one person who is genuinely good-hearted.
I’ve been lucky enough – well, maybe unlucky enough – to have had a lot of friends who have had their ups and downs. And for an actor, that’s good. Life experience in any regard is good. So I’ve seen a lot and I’ve had my own experiences.
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
I own nothing; I just stay with friends all over the country.
Two races share today the soil of Canada. These people had not always been friends. But I hasten to say it. There is no longer any family here but the human family. It matters not the language people speak, or the altars at which they kneel.
Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.
Prosperity is full of friends.
We love to be with our family and friends and I can tell you that lots of eating will be involved.
I love being with my friends, relaxing and talking.
Whenever I have free time, I usually just sleep, play games, watch movies, see my friends, have a drink. Basically, I do whatever other people do in everyday life.
Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.
June Jordan, who died of cancer in 2002, was a brilliant, fierce, radical, and frequently furious poet. We were friends for thirty years. Not once in that time did she step back from what was transpiring politically and morally in the world. She spoke up, and led her students, whom she adored, to do the same.
There were two very distinct voices going on in my head and I moved easily between them. One had to do with sports, street life and establishing myself as a male… The other voice, the one I had from my street friends and teammates, was increasingly dealing with the vocabulary of literature.
Acting is completely different from the standup world. You have these 12- or 14-hour days, but you have a great time doing it. It’s like hanging out with your friends.
Some of my best friends are white.
I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.
For more and more of us, home has really less to do with a piece of soil than, you could say, with a piece of soul. If somebody suddenly asks me, ‘Where’s your home?’ I think about my sweetheart or my closest friends or the songs that travel with me wherever I happen to be.
Finding your soul begins by discovering our ability to listen! Alternatively, by sharing a smile, a laugh and just by being human to everyone – from friends, colleagues, family, and especially strangers, including those who are not from the same station in life as you.
I am who I am. That’s why my friends and peers respect and appreciate me. I don’t change or cater my actions to fit my surroundings. I’m myself 24/7. People appreciate that.
Dutch is our first language. When you talk to older people, you speak Dutch. It’s more respectful. The local language, you talk with your friends. You don’t talk to your parents like that with the local slang.
Peer pressure is something everyone will face in school. You have to really go by what you think is the right thing to do. Turn to the friends you trust the most when you are put in a compromising situation. If your friends are making the wrong decision, then turn to your parents.
I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence, heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor.
For all my friends in the media who like quotes, mark this quote down. From this day on I’d like to be known as ‘The Big Aristotle’ because Aristotle once said, ‘Excellence is not a singular act; it’s a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.’
I always really loved soul music but all my friends were into the new romantic scene. I’d go to new romantic clubs and then go home and listen to soul music. I was sort of ashamed of listening to disco and soul music!
I didn’t have no friends or nothing; I was a nerdy kid.
‘Spring Day’ – I wrote main lyrics based on my personal experience with old friends. It is about my sad memories with him, and it makes me sentimental whenever I listen to the song.
If I get married in the future, I want to have a relationship like friends with my other half. It’d be best if we can communicate often.
God gives us relatives; thank God, we can choose our friends.
The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.
I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.
I’m a really nice guy when you meet me, and that surprises a lot of people. I’m not that eccentric in real life – and certainly not that disrespectful. In my own time, I like to just chill out with friends and not get in people’s faces.
You have to be very careful with women friends.
The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don’t mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.
I live in Ukraine with my family. I love my country, family, friends, people. I fight for them. I fight for Ukraine.
All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.
Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with friends and not acolytes.
Christopher Hitchens and I were not friends or even acquaintances. We never met or spoke on the phone, just exchanged occasional brief letters – notes, really – hand-written and snail-mailed at first, e-mailed later.
My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.
Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other’s little failings.
I keep my old friends, and get older with them, but push young. It’s good to be surrounded by kids, because they keep you young.
True friends stab you in the front.
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
My friends ask me if I want more kids, and I always say yes, I want more; it’s the best thing you can have in your life.
Trust is hard to come by. That’s why my circle is small and tight. I’m kind of funny about making new friends.
I talk to my friends and, you know, they all seem to get relationships that aren’t right. You kind of want someone who is not at your beck and call but loves the idea of being in a relationship and what that entails.
I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let’s face it, friends make life a lot more fun.
If you’re going to help somebody, sneak in, sneak out, do what you can. I just sneak along and do my thing and meet wonderful people, some people I’ve never met, new friends.
When you choose your friends, don’t be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
I’ve realized through the years that I just find happiness in other things, whether it’s my dogs or my friends or, like, looking at the sunset. So if I were to wish for something else, it would just to be happy all the time, to have a superpower of not letting things affect me, and to be true to who I am, always.
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
I became good friends with Jack Whitehall. I think he’s great, such a great dude, and really funny.
Like, my house has a nice view, because, you know, I was on ‘Friends.’
My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.
I am really a loner after all; I am really not a social person. Because of my job, people think I am out every night, but I really hate all that. I am somebody who likes to be alone and see some close friends. I am a shy and introspective person.
Our family and friends keep us grounded and they are the reason we can all feel like normal people.
It makes no sense to me that my gay friends cannot get married to each other because a certain slice of Christianity doesn’t believe in gay marriage.
I’m so happy because today I found my friends – they’re in my head.
Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Yes, I’m from a very big family but it’s great. All my brothers are friends as well. We all grew up together and have great memories.
My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we’re singing about mortality, getting older. It’s an interesting time.
I’ve never been socially outgoing, but I suspect I’ve gotten more and more ambivalent about making new friends. I’m irritated by how-do-you-do chit-chat, but that’s how new relationships usually begin.
For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
I’ve kept most of my friends for decades, and I continue to make new friends.
I see friends who are in different genres of music, and they say they’re so burnt playing the same stuff every night. That’s why you see a country act wanting to go out and play an old classic rock song. But what cracks me up is that they all want to be Jimmy Buffett. I can’t figure that out.
Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.
Lovers have a right to betray you… friends don’t.
I really don’t think in the past. I sit down with many friends at dinner, and they like to talk about the good old days. I’m respectful of the good old days, but I find myself spending very little time reminiscing. I’m really looking forward.
Even some of my Republican friends say I have a populist, progressive streak. I am not a doctrinaire, anti-government person.
Poetry gives us courage and sets us straight with the world. Poems are great companions and friends.
Instead of loving your enemies – treat your friends a little better.
It’s very hard to get together with your friends. You rarely see friends as a whole group.
And you realise you’re doing a public service in making people happy – as a musician you can give people something a doctor, a lawyer, a politician cannot give them that. It’s not scientific. It’s spiritual – a good feeling. And although you don’t know them personally, the audience are like your friends.
I love my gay fans. Gay people are always usually my best friends in the whole world. I completely adore them.
Growing up in Highbridge was real. Me and all my friends, we never really went to any other places in the Bronx but Highbridge. We always just stayed in Highbridge. It was like territory, to be honest, because Highbridge is like a town.
It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
I made, over the years in Cambridge, several very good American friends, and America appeared to me, a land of promise in every sense of that word, a land of freedom from the inhibitions and restrictions that I felt in England.
