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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.

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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

 

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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 2Relationships and Friendship Quotes

Forget and forgive.

(King Lear in King Lear)

- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), English playwright, pictured right.


 

No 3Relationships and Friendship Quotes

No man is a failure who has friends.

- Clarence  (Henry Travers), pictured right, in the 1946 film It’s A Wonderful Life).

 

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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 4Relationships and Friendship Quotes

Make yourself necessary to somebody. Don’t make life hard to anybody.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American writer and philosopher, pictured right.

  

 

No 5Relationships and Friendship Quotes

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

- Plato (427-347 BC), pictured right, Greek philosopher.

 

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Anita Roddick (1942-2007), pictured right, founder of the cosmetics retailer, the Body Shop, says the same, except be nice!

 

 

No 6Relationships and Friendship Quotes

No man is an island.

- John Donne (1572-1631), English poet, pictured right.

 

 

No 7Relationships and Friendship Quotes

Kindness will attract kindness.

Sophocles (496-406 BC) Greek playwright, pictured right.

 

 

No 8Relationships and Friendship Quotes

Am I not destroying my enemies, when I make friends of them?

- Abraham Lincoln (1809-65), American president, pictured right.

 

 

No 9Relationships and Friendship Quotes

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 10Relationships and Friendship Quotes

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves,

- Confucius (551-479 BC), pictured right, Chinese philosopher.

 

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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 11Relationships and Friendship Quotes

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 12Relationships and Friendship Quotes

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 13Relationships and Friendship Quotes

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

- Abraham Lincoln (1809-65), American president, pictured right.

 

 

No 14Relationships and Friendship Quotes

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)

 

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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 15Relationships and Friendship Quotes

I am a man more sinned against than sinning.

(King Lear in King Lear)

- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), English playwright, pictured right.

 

 

No 16Relationships and Friendship Quotes

Grieve not that men do not know you, grieve that you do not know men.

- Confucius (551-479 BC), Chinese philosopher, pictured right.

 

 

No 17Relationships and Friendship Quotes

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.

 

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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)Relationships and Friendship Quotes

- John Lennon (1940–1980), pictured right above, and Paul McCartney (1942- ), pictured right)

 

 

No 19Relationships and Friendship Quotes

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 20Relationships and Friendship Quotes

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 21Relationships and Friendship Quotes

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 22Relationships and Friendship Quotes

I must be cruel, only to be kind.

(Hamlet in Hamlet)

- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), English playwright, pictured right.

 

 

No 23Relationships and Friendship Quotes

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

 (from the 1874 novel Middlemarch)

- George Eliot (1819-90), English writer, pictured right.

 

 

No 24Relationships and Friendship Quotes

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 25Relationships and Friendship Quotes

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 26Relationships and Friendship Quotes

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

- Aristotle (384-322 BC), pictured right, Greek philosopher.

 

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Richard Rolle (c1290-1349), pictured right, the English religious writer, says similarly:

Friendship is the knitting of two wills.

 

 

No 27Relationships and Friendship Quotes

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 28Relationships and Friendship Quotes

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 29Relationships and Friendship Quotes

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 30Relationships and Friendship Quotes

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

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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 32Relationships and Friendship Quotes

If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything,

- Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962), American movie star (pictured right).

 

 

No 33Relationships and Friendship Quotes

To the noble mind rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind

(Ophelia in Hamlet).

- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), English playwright, pictured right

 

 

No 34Relationships and Friendship Quotes

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate,

- Socrates (470-399 BC), pictured right, Greek philosopher.

 

 

No 35Relationships and Friendship Quotes

We all need each other.

- Kurt Lewin (1890-1947), pictured right, American psychologist.

 

 

No 36Relationships and Friendship Quotes

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 37Relationships and Friendship Quotes

Make yourself necessary to somebody. Don’t make life hard to anybody.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), pictured right, American writer and philosopher.

 

 

No 38Relationships and Friendship Quotes

We are what we make of what others make of us.

- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-80), pictured right, French philosopher.

 

 

No 39Relationships and Friendship Quotes

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 40Relationships and Friendship Quotes

Virtue can only flourish among equals.

- Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), pictured right, English pioneer of women’s rights.

 

 

No 41Relationships and Friendship Quotes

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 42Relationships and Friendship Quotes

There’s daggers in men’s smiles.

(Donalbain in Macbeth)

- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), English playwright, pictured right.

 

 

No 43Relationships and Friendship Quotes

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

-Albert Einstein (1879-1955), pictured right, German-born American scientist.

 

 

No 44Relationships and Friendship Quotes

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 45Relationships and Friendship Quotes

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 46Relationships and Friendship Quotes

It’s awfully easy to lie when you’re trusted implicitly.

- Laura (Celia Johnson in the 1945 film Brief Encounter, pictured right)

 

 

No 47Relationships and Friendship Quotes

None can be called deformed but the unkind,

(Antonio in Twelfth Night)

- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), English playwright, pictured right.

 

 

No 48Relationships and Friendship Quotes

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 50Relationships and Friendship Quotes

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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