Relationships and Friendship Quotes
Top 50 Relationships and Friendship Quotes
No 1 (Best quote!)
Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you,
(Luke 6:27 in the Bible)
- Jesus (c4 BC-c30 AD), founder of
Christianity
So in Matthew 5:39 Jesus tells people to turn the other cheek:
If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.
But remember Jane Eyre’s advice in
Charlotte Brontë’s, pictured right,
1847 novel:
If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust, the wicked people ... would never
feel afraid, and so they would never alter
Nelson Mandela (1918-2013), pictured right, the
South African leader, also comments:
To make peace with your enemy, one must work with that enemy and that enemy becomes your partner,
No 2
Forget and forgive.
(King Lear in King Lear)
- William Shakespeare (1564-1616),
English playwright, pictured right.
No 3
No man is a failure who has friends.
- Clarence (Henry Travers), pictured right, in the 1946 film It’s A Wonderful Life).
So Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone, pictured right), says to a 12-year-old girl in the 1976
film Rocky:
You hang out with nice people, you get nice friends
No 4
Make yourself necessary to somebody. Don’t make life hard to anybody.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
American writer and philosopher, pictured right.
No 5
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
- Plato (427-347 BC), pictured right, Greek
philosopher.
Anita Roddick (1942-2007),
pictured right, founder of the cosmetics retailer, the Body Shop, says the same, except be nice!
No 6
No man is an island.
- John Donne (1572-1631), English poet, pictured right.
No 7
Kindness will attract kindness.
- Sophocles (496-406 BC) Greek playwright, pictured right.
No 8
Am I not destroying my enemies, when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln (1809-65), American president,
pictured right.
No 9
Folks don’t like to have somebody around knowin’ more than they do. It aggravates ‘em,
(Calpurnia in the 1960 novel To Kill a
Mockingbird).
- Harper Lee (1926- ), American writer, pictured right.
No 10
Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves,
- Confucius (551-479 BC), pictured right,
Chinese philosopher.
Mahatma ( Mohandas) Gandhi
(1869-1948), pictured right, the Indian leader and philosopher, agrees:
An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.
No 11
Life appears to be too short in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
(Helen Burns in the 1847 novel Jane
Eyre)
- Charlotte Brontë (1816-55),
English writer, pictured right
No
12
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy. It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on.
(Iago in Othello)
- William Shakespeare
(1564-1616), English playwright, pictured right.
No 13
I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809-65), American president,
pictured right.
No 14
If you can surround yourself with people who will never let you settle for less than you can be, you have the
greatest gift anyone can hope for.
- Anthony (Tony) Robbins, pictured right, in Unlimited Power
(1986)
Oprah Winfrey (1954- ), pictured right,
the African American chat show host, agrees:
Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.
No 15
I am a man more sinned against than sinning.
(King Lear in King Lear)
- William Shakespeare (1564-1616),
English playwright, pictured right.
No 16
Grieve not that men do not know you, grieve that you do not know men.
- Confucius (551-479 BC), Chinese
philosopher, pictured right.
No 17
To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
- René Descartes (1596-1650) French
philosopher and mathematician, pictured right.
No 18
All the lonely people, where do they all come from? All the lonely people, where do they all belong?,
(The Beatles song Eleanor Rigby)
- John Lennon
(1940–1980), pictured right above, and Paul McCartney (1942- ), pictured right)
No 19
The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.
-Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962),
American civil rights campaigner, pictured right.
No 20
There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
(from the 1815 novel Emma)
- Jane Austen (1775-1815), English writer,
pictured right.
No 21
It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability...People won’t have time for you if you are always angry
or complaining.
- Stephen Hawking (1942-), pictured
right, English scientist.
No 22
I must be cruel, only to be kind.
(Hamlet in Hamlet)
- William Shakespeare (1564-1616),
English playwright, pictured right.
No 23
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
(from the 1874 novel Middlemarch)
- George Eliot (1819-90), English writer, pictured right.
No 24
But tears were not the things to find their way to Mr Bumble’s soul: his heart was waterproof,
(from the 1838 novel Oliver Twist)
- Charles Dickens (1812-70), English
writer, pictured right
No 25
We cannot understand ourselves unless we understand others, and we cannot understand others unless we understand
ourselves.
- Chris Argyris, pictured right,. Personality and Organization
(1957)
No 26
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle (384-322 BC), pictured
right, Greek philosopher.
Richard Rolle (c1290-1349), pictured right, the English religious writer, says similarly:
Friendship is the knitting of two wills.
No 27
If we want to make friends, let's put ourselves out to do things for other people.
- Dale Carnegie, pictured right, How to Win Friends and Influence
People (1936)
Carnegie also advises in the same book:
If you want to make friends, let’s greet people with animation and enthusiasm
No 28
The quality of mercy is not straineth; it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
(Portia in The Merchant of
Venice)
- William Shakespeare (1564-1616),
English playwright, pictured right
No 29
A wise girl kisses but doesn’t love, listens but doesn’t believe and leaves before she is left.
- Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962),
pictured right, American movie star.
No
30
The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes or by just
staring into space,
- Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962), pictured
right, American movie star
No
31
No one is useless in this world...who lightens the burden of it for any one else
(the Secretary in Our Mutual Friend, 1865)
- Charles Dickens
(1812-70) pictured right, English novelist.
No
32
If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything,
- Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962), American
movie star (pictured right).
No
33
To the noble mind rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind
(Ophelia in Hamlet).
- William Shakespeare (1564-1616),
English playwright, pictured right
No
34
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate,
- Socrates (470-399 BC), pictured right,
Greek philosopher.
No
35
We all need each other.
- Kurt Lewin (1890-1947),
pictured right, American psychologist.
No
36
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself
(Duke of Norfolk in Henry
VIII)
- William Shakespeare (1564-1616),
English playwright, pictured right
No
37
Make yourself necessary to somebody. Don’t make life hard to anybody.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882),
pictured right, American writer and philosopher.
No
38
We are what we make of what others make of us.
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-80), pictured
right, French philosopher.
No
39
And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.,
- Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931), pictured
right, Lebanese-born American philosopher.
No 40
Virtue can only flourish among equals.
- Mary Wollstonecraft
(1759-1797), pictured right, English pioneer of women’s rights.
No 41
When two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the
other sees him and each man as he really is.
- William James (1842-1910),
pictured right, American psychologist and philosopher.
No
42
There’s daggers in men’s smiles.
(Donalbain in Macbeth)
- William Shakespeare (1564-1616),
English playwright, pictured right.
No 43
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
-Albert Einstein (1879-1955), pictured
right, German-born American scientist.
No
44
Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.
(Joe in the 1860 novel Great
Expectations).
- Charles Dickens (1812-70), pictured
right, English writer
No 45
Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
(Dumbledore in Order of the Phoenix)
- J.K. Rowling (1965- ), English writer,
pictured right.
No 46
It’s awfully easy to lie when you’re trusted implicitly.
- Laura (Celia Johnson in the 1945 film Brief Encounter, pictured right)
No
47
None can be called deformed but the unkind,
(Antonio in Twelfth
Night)
- William Shakespeare (1564-1616),
English playwright, pictured right.
No 48
Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn,
- Rhett Butler (Clark Gable, pictured right, to Scarlett O'Hara in the 1939 film
Gone with the Wind)
No 49
Do not judge, or you too will be judged,
(Matthew 7:1 in the Bible)
- Jesus (c4 BC-c30 AD), founder of
Christianity
No
50
I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws [jackdaws] to peck at
(Iago in Othello)
- William Shakespeare (1564-1616),
English playwright, pictured right.
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