Friendships Quotes

So I really did stop and change what I saw I was about, and really try to put that principle into play as the center of everything - my friendships, my marriage, my career, my family, my way of being in the world. And that changed everything for me.

True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist.

These dudes were 30 years old, and they would compete about getting the best chick. That came before their friendships. Some of them treat women like they're objects. I never felt like that.

In our friendships we have to be wise that we choose godly people to be our friends. Somebody might say, well does that mean that you should never have a lost person as your friend? No, I wouldn't say that. But you can't have the same intimacy with a lost person that you can with a godly person in whom the Holy Spirit is living.

I heard my mother talking badly of me to people who were talking badly of me in her salon. That's probably the thing that I'm most sensitive of in all my friendships and my relationships. I just... I just can't take that. I'm comfortable with enemies, but I can't take it from friends.

It's easier to write from my own life, and it's also more fun. I always write about relationships, for instance, whether they're romantic relationships, friendships, encounters... there's always a lesson to be learned from them.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

And I tell you that's one of the reasons why I didn't have the friendships with the media, maybe like I could have. But I had to do what I had to do to make myself successful.

Friendships are discovered rather than made.

Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.

My hates have always occupied my mind much more actively and have given greater spiritual satisfactions than my friendships.

My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it.

I'm someone who loves to enjoy life and tries to focus on real things and real friendships. That's why I live very simply. I'm a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl. I don't spend much time fixing myself up or trying to look cool. I live like a normal person and even though I'm in a very high-profile business, I really don't let it affect the way I live.

I learned from Mr. Wrigley, early in my career, that loyalty wins and it creates friendships. I saw it work for him in his business.

I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true.

I enjoyed being involved in team sports and making close friendships.

All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can't bat a thousand all the time.

Books are a real solace, friendships are good but action is better than all.

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.

It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.

You don't just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it is friendships or opportunities.

With girls, friendships are hard because you have to learn to get to a maturity level to love them but not want to be them.

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

That's a job that it makes a few friendships, but it probably breaks more.