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Quotes About Friendship

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
~ John C. Maxwell
Few things will pay you bigger dividends in life than the time and trouble you take to understand people and build relationships. As
~ John C. Maxwell
Creative people don't avoid failure. They see it as a friend. They know that if they are to experiment, innovate, and create, they will fail. They embrace risk.
~ John C. Maxwell
the most important relationship you will ever have is with yourself. You've got to be your own best friend first." —PHIL MCGRAW
~ John C. Maxwell
When people respect someone as a person, they admire her. When they respect her as a friend, they love her. When they respect her as a leader, they follow her.
~ John C. Maxwell
Integrity is your best friend. And it's also one of the best friends that your friends will ever have. When the people around you know that you're a person of integrity, they know that you want to influence them because of the opportunity to add value to their lives. They don't have to worry about your motives.
~ John C. Maxwell
Author and conference speaker Richard Exley explained his idea of friendship this way: "A true friend is one who hears and understands when you share your deepest feelings. He supports you when you are struggling; he corrects you, gently and with love, when you err; and he forgives you when you fail. A true friend prods you to personal growth, stretches you to your full potential. And most amazing of all, he celebrates your successes as if they were his own.
~ John C. Maxwell
My friend Dan Reiland says, "A genuine friend encourages and challenges us to live out our best thoughts, honor our purest motives, and achieve our most significant dreams." That's what we need to do with the important people in our lives.
~ John C. Maxwell
Charles Schwab: Be friends with everybody. When you have friends you will know there is somebody who will stand by you. You know the old saying, that if you have a single enemy you will find him everywhere. It doesn't pay to make enemies. Lead the life that will make you kind and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will live.
~ John C. Maxwell
A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
~ John C. Maxwell
People like people who like them.
~ John C. Maxwell
Comparta un secreto con alguien» de mi libro 25 Maneras de ganarse a la gente.
~ John C. Maxwell
The best way to lose an enemy is to treat him like a friend.
~ John C. Maxwell
If you should observe an occasion to give your officers and friends a little more praise than is their due, and confess more fault than you justly be charged with, you will only become the sooner for it, a great captain. Criticizing and censuring almost everyone you have to do with, will diminish friends, increase enemies, and hereby hurt you affairs.
~ John C. Maxwell
When you get to be as old and as rich as I am, it's hard to meet people.
~ John Cheever
The belief that a crooked heart is betrayed by palsies, tics, and other infirmities dies hard.
~ John Cheever
The other person at the Frost Report table to whom I was drawn was one Marty Feldman. I hasten to add that my interest in him was platonic: in fact when I first met him, I was rather shocked by his physical appearance. Dressed only in black, heavily suntanned and very fit, he looked like an Armani gargoyle. This was the script editor?
~ John Cleese
I would like to bring to people something like happiness. I would like to discover a method so that if I want it to rain, it will start right away to rain. If one of my friends is ill, I'd like to play a certain song and he will be cured; when he'd be broke, I'd bring out a different song and immediately he'd receive all the money he needed.
~ John Coltrane
Thus did these two, the man from Wales and the man from Norfolk, enter the silent streets of the town of Glastonbury.
~ John Cowper Powys
The best part about growing up with no money is that you know how to have fun without it.
~ Unknown
If love hurts you to look back, frightens you to look ahead, just look beside... I'll be there!
~ Unknown
Dating a girl with a guy best friend is never easy.
~ Unknown
Woman reaches love through friendship; man reaches friendship through love.
~ Unknown
Valentines Day = Single Awareness Day
~ Unknown