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Quotes About Friendliness

Hatred of oppression still distorts the features, Anger at injustice still makes voices raised and ugly. Oh we, who wished to lay for the foundations for peace and friendliness, Could never be friendly ourselves.
~ Bertolt Brecht
Contemporary research shows that happy people are more altruistic, more productive, more helpful, more likable, more creative, more resilient, more interested in others, friendlier, and healthier. Happy people make better friends, colleagues, and citizens.
~ Gretchen Rubin
The best of the people are the first to greet others.
~ Abu Umamah al Bahili
Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure.
~ Emanuel Celler
As your silence grows; your friendliness, your love grows; your life becomes a moment-to-moment dance, a joy, a celebration.
~ Rajneesh
I was kind and friendly to him," Lulu said, shaking her head. "And I exuded confidence and charm. That's what I was trying to tell you. Anyone can do it. It doesn't matter how you look or what you're wearing.
~ Meg Cabot
The secret of happiness is very simply 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
When I meet people for the first time, I'm friendly but shy. I'm much less outwardly nervous than I used to be, but I still get anxious sometimes.
~ Anne Hathaway
If you're wearing something I like, I will come over and ask where you got it from. I'm not shy!
~ Joanne Froggatt
We're really quite nice and friendly, but everyone has a beastly side to them, don't they?
~ Sid Vicious
Dissimulation, secretiveness, appear a necessity to the melancholic. He has complex, often veiled relations with others. These feelings of superiority, of inadequacy, of baffled feeling, of not being able to get what one wants, or even name it properly (or consistently) to oneself — these can be, it is felt they ought to be, masked by friendliness, or the most scrupulous manipulation.
~ Susan Sontag
Some might see me on Instagram or Twitter and think otherwise, but when you really get to know me, I'm a likable guy. So that's why I think that people are drawn to me.
~ Gervonta Davis
If we can help to make the interactions between folks online safer and more friendly, that would make it all more fun and more gratifying for everyone.
~ Michael Morhaime
A friendliness, as of dwarfs shaking hands, was in the air...
~ Forster E.M.
Thank you, Sal," said Pindar. Sal bowed to Pindar and winked at Joe. It struck Joe that Pindar was exceedingly gracious to everyone they encountered, and, as they took their seats, Joe asked Pindar about that. "It never hurts to be kind to people," Pindar replied.
~ Bob Burg
Most people are nice when you finally see them
~ Harper Lee
Your customers are judging every aspect of every transaction and rating everything, from friendliness of people to ease of doing business to quality of product to service after the sale.
~ Jeffrey Gitomer
India had previously entertained no sympathy for the Southern way of life, with its pervasive friendliness, its offhanded viciousness, its overwhelming lassitude.
~ Michael McDowell
He has had more hallucinations recently. He talks about 'When that man was in the kitchen …' and so on. Recently he locked the door in the evening, in case 'those men' got in. He knows by their accents that they are quite cultured, and they are apparently friendly, but it is frightening that they should be so real to him.
~ Michael Palin
People come up to me on the street and make some little joke - like they'll say, 'Excuse me, sir, what time is it?' And I'll say, you know, '5:15,' and they'll say, 'Hey! Made you talk!' And that's merely a way of saying, 'I know your work and I like you.'
~ Teller
I would prefer to be well-liked in any and all situations.
~ Janeane Garofalo
The tearoom lady called me love. All the shop ladies called me love and most of the men called me mate. I hadn't been here twelve hours and already they loved me.
~ Bill Bryson
The friendliness of Australians – all of it quite sincere and spontaneous, as far as I could ever tell – never ceases to amaze or gratify.
~ Bill Bryson
Lesson one, introduce yourself to everyone when you walk into a room. Don't act like you're too bougie to say, 'Hello.'
~ Estelle