Quotes About Friendship

Work friendships are not a substitute for real friendships, although they can also be satisfying, if designed purposively.

Carlos's question made me reflect on the fact that, like a lot of hardworking, ambitious people, I had lots and lots of "deal friends" but not too many real friends, and I was pretty lonely as a result. I vowed to cultivate my few real friendships much more.

Once and always my romantic love, she is also my best friend.

intimate friendship, whether it be from the companionate love of your spouse or an Aristotelian "perfect friend," is better than any professional success. It will salve the wounds of professional decline like nothing else.

Many mornings upon waking, my first thoughts are about my old work and friendships in Washington. I rub the sleep from my eyes, get up, and cast my line into the falling tide of the new day.

Leaders are particularly prone to loneliness, in no small part because real friendships at work are difficult or impossible with people under one's authority and supervision.

As Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in his joyful essay "Friendship," I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. Shall I not call God the Beautiful, who daily showeth himself so to me in his gifts? I chide society, I embrace solitude, and yet I am not so ungrateful as not to see the wise, the lovely, and the noble-minded, as from time to time they pass my gate. Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine—a possession for all time. An

What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.

I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford.

So, being a good man is not an exam or a qualification, it changes, and it incorporates being a good friend, a good father, a good employee, a good boss, a good neighbour and a good citizen.

Friendship is accepting a person with all their qualities - good and bad.

I make friends with people really easily - that's one of my best qualities.

SpongeBob has these qualities that I aspire to. Sure, he's a little naive, maybe, but he's so optimistic and is able to put his love of his friends and family above everything else.

I am certain that most Germans have instinctive liking for Italy, just as Italians admire Germans for their many qualities.

Everyone has friends or people they know, while they aren't definitively sociopaths, they have sociopathic qualities.

You know, for me, Facebook is now what Manachira ground in Kozhikode used to be. A meeting place of friends. It is where I speak up, listen to, quarrel and make up.

Paul Laverty is a wonderful writer and we've worked together for a quarter of a century.

I wish I was more like my character. In character, I am the queen. I am strong. I am confident, sometimes cocky. I'm hard to beat. Out of character, I am a daughter, a sister, an aunt, a best friend and just the girl next door that likes Ben & Jerry's ice cream.

When I was growing up in Ossining, N.Y., playing pool with the guys, the thought that any one of us might become an actor was as far-fetched as being knighted by the queen of England.

I'm always nice and then people are happy to hang out with me! There's no point being a sassy diva queen.

Queen Latifah has been a huge part of my career. She has been a huge, huge part of my career since the very beginning.

Side note, I was Prom Prince. My friend and I campaigned to be Prom King and Queen, and we got the rest of the non-popular people in the school to vote for us. We didn't win, but we got Prince and Princess.

To me, Green Arrow in the past, what people loved about Oliver Queen pre-New 52 was his relationships with other heroes. Like his friendship with Green Lantern, his animosity with Hawkman, his romance with Black Canary - these are all the things that sort of defined him.

I knew of Queen, and I knew of Freddie, but I didn't know who the rest of the band were. I became friends with Freddie first; then I got to know the others.