Friendly Quotes

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

Don’t wait for other people to be loving, giving, compassionate, grateful, forgiving, generous, or friendly... lead the way!

Everybody is like a magnet. You attract to yourself reflections of that which you are. If you're friendly then everybody else seems to be friendly too.

Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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

History shows that no enemy remains hostile forever, nor do friends remain friendly forever. For that reason, we intend to have normal relations with all.

Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent.

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

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.

America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room.

Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.

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

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

The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.

Always hold your head up but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.

Absence and a friendly neighbor washes away love.

I believe in friendly compromise. I said over in the Senate hearings that truth is the glue that holds government together. Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.

Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.

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

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

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

Fine writers should split hairs together, and sit side by side, like friendly apes, to pick the fleas from each others fur.

The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who can perform great feats before friendly crowds.

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?

God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.

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

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.

I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them.

Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be having fun. They have something to do that is like a friendly imitation of work: they can take pictures.

Everybody at school knew who I was because I'm just a really friendly person.

A friendly look, a kindly smile, one good act and life's worthwhile.

It is, therefore, with the sincerest pleasure I have observed on the part of the British government various manifestations of a just and friendly disposition towards us; we wish to cultivate peace and friendship with all nations, believing that course most conducive to the welfare of our own; it is natural that these friendships should bear some proportion to the common interests of the parties.

The desire to preserve our country from the calamities and ravages of war, by cultivating a disposition, and pursuing a conduct, conciliatory and friendly to all nations, has been sincerely entertained and faithfully followed. It was dictated by the principles of humanity, the precepts of the gospel, and the general wish of our country, and it was not to be doubted that the Society of Friends, with whom it is a religious principle, would sanction it by their support.

Being blunt with your feelings is very American.

In this big country, I can be as brash as New York, as hedonistic as Los Angeles, as sensuous as San Francisco, as brainy as Boston, as proper as Philadelphia, as brawny as Chicago, as warm as Palm Springs, as friendly as my adopted home town of Dallas, Fort Worth, and as peaceful as the inland waterway that rubs up against my former home in Virginia Beach.

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.

Their rebukes have never made me angry, because I have always wondered why they did not rebuke me more. They should have. Their friendly praise has been one of the sweetest, most warming things in my life in the theater. I do go on the stage unafraid of them and with love in my heart for them.

The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.

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.

Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

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.

Often, I look out the window and wait.

I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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.

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.

Warm weather fosters growth: cold weather destroys it.

Thus a man with an unsympathetic temperament has a scant joy: but a man with a warm and friendly heart overflowing blessings, and his beneficence will extend to posterity

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.

There is a great solitude about such a shore.

The woods are never solitary- they are full of whispering, beckoning, friendly life. But the sea is a mighty soul, forever moaning of some great, unshareable sorrow, which shuts it up into itself for all eternity. We can never pierce its infinite mystery- we may only wander, awed and spell-bound, on the outer fringe of it. The woods call to us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only- a mighty voice that drowns our souls in its majestic music. The woods are human, but the sea is of the company of the archangels.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals.

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.

The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette; but one had to check the friendly impulse to ask for it in the same way.