Top 100 Quotes About Relationships Friendships
#1. If you gotta force it, just leave it alone. Relationships, friendships, ponytails.. Just leave it.
Reyna Biddy
#2. 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.
Jason Mraz
#3. When you are your own best friend, you don't endlessly seek out relationships, friendships, and validation from the wrong sources because you realize that the only approval and validation you need is your own.
Mandy Hale
#4. [How to train your dragon] is beautiful to look at and, again, those values that it contains about relationships, friendships, and bonding in the face of ignorance.
Gerard Butler
#5. Why would anyone want perfection when growth comes from flaws?
Shannon L. Alder
#6. My dad's always been a famous actor, so I've grown up with that, and with the lifestyle. In a way, I think I thrive on the insecurity that comes with it. Not in my private life - I like to believe that my friendships and my relationships are strong.
Alice Eve
#7. Friendships and relationships change my perspective. Once I change my perspective, I live differently. When we gain a heart of compassion toward others who have less, we want to give more. Our view of what we need radically shifts.
Jeff Shinabarger
#8. Mary Tyler Moore was a working woman whose story lines were not always about dating and men. They were about work friendships and relationships, which is what I feel my adult life has mostly been about.
Tina Fey
#9. Godly relationships will help grow, replenish, and refuel us so we can continually move closer to our dreams... It's critical that we constantly evaluate whom we're in relationships with to ensure they're taking us toward our dreams and not holding us back from our destinies.
Christine Caine
#10. It's just that, you know how it is in some relationships, how one of them is a little more in love. Well, it's like that with friendships. Sometimes one of them thinks they're really close, closer than they are. And the other doesn't feel that way.
Andrew Sean Greer
#11. Jealousy is when their reflection in the mirror that is your progress, is attacked rather than appreciated, begrudged rather than understood.
Sam Owen
#12. My life isn't focused on results. My life is really focused on the process of doing all the things I'm doing, from work to relationships to friendships to charitable work.
George Clooney
#13. Common perceptions of female friendships are morning coffees discussing children, bags, periods and agreeing about the misdemeanours of men ... mild, soft, nurturing relationships.
Samantha Harvey
#14. Build relationships and friendships by finding common experiences or interests instead of getting discouraged by noticeable differences.
Archibald Marwizi
#15. The most dangerous aspect of your relationships is not your weakness, but your delusions of strength. Self-reliance is almost always a component of a bad relationship.
Timothy S. Lane & Paul David Tripp
#16. I did not find that writing a diary with a lead male character differed in any essential way from writing one with a female character. They all had the same challenges in terms of attempting to establish an identity, coping with loneliness, friendships, relationships.
Kathryn Lasky
#18. Insanity is starting over a million times, expecting to feel the spark you never did the first time.
Shannon L. Alder
#19. The most important parts of building a family are "God's Love" and "Meaningful Friendships.
Phil Mitchell
#20. It makes me think that a marriage of true minds - to again quote Shakespeare - is in many ways just dumb luck.
Carlene Bauer
#21. I support any means to make real connections so long as that it does lead really quickly to real connections. It's the long-term online friendships and relationships that start to get a little hairy.
Nev Schulman
#22. You can love them, forgive them, want good things for them ... but still move on without them.
Mandy Hale
#23. I am a super social person. I'm an only child, so I thrive on social settings and being around my friends because I make them my siblings. When I'm not acting or singing or working on anything, I am making new relationships with people because, to me, my friendships are very important.
Hayley Orrantia
#24. I don't agree on spending time with someone who is more attached to his cell phone than he is to me.
Mohamed Ghazi
#25. Friendships and relationships better prosper among equals.
Girdhar Joshi
#26. Although one might seem relatively gregarious, the real self is at the desk," she said. "It is a trial for relationships, for friendships. Every writer dreads losing the connection to the work, the momentum, and to keep it, you can't truly be sociable.
Edna O'Brien
#27. I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships, which I hope lessens a little bit with age.
Lena Dunham
#28. Friendship is a sacred thing and I do not extend the word lightly. I've had long-term romances in my life but few genuine friendships. I am exceedingly picky about who I let in my inner circle and because of that I have a few friends and many acquaintances.
Donna Lynn Hope
#29. I was interested about how relationships change as you get older. You are great friends in your 20s. In your 30s, you get married. Your 40s are all about your kids. In your 50s, you get divorced, and your friendships become primary again.
Hanya Yanagihara
#30. Ever since [that day], a small uncertainty had buzzed between us.It was a sense of chemistry that had been a little elusive, a little imprecise, until now.
Amor Towles
#31. I'd had a little feeling of destiny. Because, you see, what I mean about affinities is true from friendships down to even the accidental glance at someone on the street-there's always a definite reason somewhere. I think even the poets would agree with me.
Patricia Highsmith
#32. In the beginning, I wanted his heart. Then I shifted focus to his body. I was never interested in only friendship.
Daria Snadowsky
#33. If I am your shadow [...,] it is only because you are my light. And the one cannot exist without the other.
~Draco
Claire
#34. Most days, I worked harder at faking "normal" than I did on my grades, friendships or the few-and-fleeting relationships I'd had
Jeaniene Frost
#35. I find there are usually no extremes in relationships, even friendship. One is not always right or never wrong.
Boone Brux
#36. People being tough with you doesn't mean they're villains.
Anna Kendrick
#37. If we are a people rich in social relationships, we are rich indeed. Whenever we develop significant friendships with those who are not like us culturally, we become broader, wiser persons.
Richard J. Foster
#38. People aren't defined by their relationship. The whole point is being true to yourself and not losing yourself in relationships, whether romances or friendships.
Nina Dobrev
#40. Delusions are hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding insane people living in a backwards world.
Shannon L. Alder
#41. How strange that something so simple could have been instrumental in my decision to ruin one of my most relationships and friendships, and damage another.
Veronica Roth
#42. Friends were more important than lovers - not least for the fact that friendships generally lasted longer than relationships.
John Irving
#43. Female friendships that work are relationships in which women help each other belong to themselves.
Louise Bernikow
#45. Among young people, often a key factor in them committing suicide is the trauma of transient relationships. They throw themselves into a friendship or network of friendships, then it collapses and they're desolate.
Vincent Nichols
#46. The biggest lesson from Africa was that life's joys come mostly from relationships and friendships, not from material things. I saw time and again how much fun Africans had with their families and friends and on the sports fields; they laughed all the time.
Andrew Shue
#47. Pretend to be poor in reality and you'll notice a decrease in your friends list and request.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#48. Treat your business relationships like friendships (or potential friendships). Formality puts up walls, and walls don't foster good business relationships. No one is loyal to a wall ... except the one in China.
Steve Pavlina
#49. The people in our life is like the mountain and the river. Some people will stay as others will leave. Some will travel away and make their way back to you.
Touaxia Vang
#50. I am a bit of a solitude person - a solitary personality. I like being on my own. I don't have any major friendships or relationships with people.
Anthony Hopkins
#51. There are not many relationships more powerful than that of two women who fall fast and deep into a friendship. It was heartbreaking to be loved and left.
Mindy Kaling
#52. So it's all right for him to rule out a serious relationship, but it's wrong if I'm not ready to settle for less?
Daria Snadowsky
#53. I cannot live without you. For to attempt to do so would be to rob both of us of each other, and that is thievery of the greatest sort.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#54. When you decide to meet - in person - someone that you met online, would you then be taking your relationship to the 'previous' level?
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#55. Without a doubt, my richest relationships are my long-term friendships with musical partners, because we make music together. That's what we love to do with our lives.
Chick Corea
#56. We seek the fulfilment of strong romantic relationships and friendships, yet striving too hard to achieve security in such relationships stifles them; their flourishing depends on a certain degree of not being protected, of being open to experiences both negative and positive.
Oliver Burkeman
#57. Energetic cords are unconscious - often sentimental or compulsive - emotional ties to past and present relationships, pre-conditioned by our wounds. They are made of toxic emotions such fear, guilt, blame, hatred, obligation, grasping need or pain.
Avril Carruthers
#58. Often the truth is in front of your face, but your eyes and heart are so full of lies that you can't see it.
Shannon L. Alder
#59. It is love and friendship, the sanctity and celebration of our relationships, that not only support a good life, but create one. Through friendships, we spark and inspire one another's ambitions.
Wallace Stegner
#61. We are wasting our youth holding cold devices while we should be holding one another's warm hands.
Mohamed Ghazi
#62. The best relationships develop out of friendships.
Diane Keaton
#63. If love comes to you in a way that isn't the norm then at least it came to you; not everyone is that lucky.
Donna Lynn Hope
#64. It's the people we hardly know, and not our closest friends, who will improve our lives most dramatically
Meg Jay
#65. I hold a strict policy of automatic grudges against people everyone likes.
Kate Hattemer
#66. Generosity is the key to all relationships. To friendships and bands. That's the golden rule.
Tina Weymouth
#67. I'm anxious about work, the future, friendships, past relationships ... I'm just one of those people that, whatever I'm doing, it's a big worry.
Conor McPherson
#68. I no longer have the energy for meaningless friendships, forced interactions or unnecessary conversations. If we don't vibrate on the same frequency there's just no reason for us to waste our time. I'd rather have no one and wait for substance than to not feel someone and fake the funk.
Joquesse Eugenia
#69. But a lot of things probably will never change - like our friendships and our working relationships. As far as me and Patrick [Stump, the singer] and all of Fall Out Boy, it's in a vacuum.
Pete Wentz
#70. The interesting thing about text is that, as a medium, it separates you from the person you are speaking with, so you can act differently from how you would in person or even on the phone.
Aziz Ansari
#71. There is no medicine that can ignite the bond of love. Friendship is compulsory, love comes around when friendship ripes, and sex is a matter of choice.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#72. People form close friendships by knowing private things about each other, and the reason most people don't make close friends is because they're too embarrassed to share anything really important about themselves.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#73. No outbreak of jealousy or malice has ever been welcomed in God's eyes." Beatrix continued, "nor shall such an outbreak ever be welcomed in the eyes of your family. If you have sentiments within you that are unpleasant or uncharitable, let them fall stillborn to the ground.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#74. While I am grateful for the friendships and relationships that I have with my Republican colleagues, it would be naive to pretend that those friendships will change the way that major policies are enacted in Arizona.
Kyrsten Sinema
#75. Sometimes friendships go bad, she tells herself. Relationships soften and rot like old fruit. They have their time, and then they shrivel and grow putrid. She
Jennie Fields
#76. If there is no fate and our interactions depend on such a complex system of chance encounters, what potentially important connections do we fail to make? What life changing relationships or passionate and lasting love affairs are lost to chance?
Simon Pegg
#77. A lot of ink is given over to mythologizing female friendships as curious, fragile relationships that are always intensely fraught. Stop reading writing that encourages this mythology.
Roxane Gay
#78. Personal relationships are always the key to good business. You can buy networking; you can't buy friendships.
Lindsay Fox
#79. If you never learned to hold onto someone, how could it possibly hurt now to let them go?
Shannon L. Alder
#80. We can let go of the person or love or friendship without letting go of the lesson.
Mandy Hale
#82. My friendships and relationships in the conservative world are not predicated on political correctness and enforced conformity of thought. They are based, instead, on mutual respect, honesty and understanding - concepts many modern liberals should consider revisiting.
Tammy Bruce
#83. Once people get into relationships, friends and rational thought get tossed aside.
Philip Siegel
#85. Vulnerability creates unimaginable space to build each other up, as much as it creates ample room to tear each other down.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#86. They had never been able to sustain fifteen minutes' conversation with one another without advancing irreconcilable points of view, invigorating in friendships, but in close blood relations producing only uneasy cordiality.
Harper Lee
#87. Don't pour a lifetime of effort into a seasonal relationship. Not everyone from the pilot belongs in the finale.
Mandy Hale
#88. You don't need a reason to add value to somebody's life. Nor do you need to get anything back from them. You add value because it's who you are.
Renee Wade
#89. Betrayal is advancing myself at the expense of the one who I committed myself to advance.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#90. You may say you won't interfere with another person's soul, but you do - merely by existing. The snag about it is the practical difficulty, so to speak, of not existing.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#91. The Savior encouraged brotherhood. He was not a long-distance leader. He walked and worked with those whom he led. He was not afraid of close friendships. He spent many hours with his disciples, and his relationships with them were intimate.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#92. You and I are so different: I am one word at a time one foot in front of the other, slowly, always testing how surely footing is before proceeding to the next sentence with ruminative breaks for buttered toast and coffee.
Carlene Bauer
#93. It's a message from the Universe. "The best relationships begin as friendships.
Devon Herrera
#94. Don't let a thief into your house three times. The first time was enough. The second time was a chance. The third time means you're stupid.
C. JoyBell C.
#95. I'd rather trust nine people and have the 10th one stab me in the back. I'd take that fall in order to have those nine friendships or working relationships instead of having none. That's not living.
Margot Robbie
#96. I think I'm close to lot of people in Bollywood, but I believe in evil eye, and I feel when I talk about friendships and relationships in public something somewhere goes wrong with it.
Arjun Rampal
#97. Even now it comes as a shock if by chance I notice in the street a face resembling someone I know however slightly, and I am at once seized by a shivering violent enough to make me dizzy.
Osamu Dazai
#98. I am impressed by how much of my grandparent's life depended on continuities, contacts, connections, friendships, and blood relationships.
Wallace Stegner
#100. Whatever it is that makes closeness possible between people also puts them in the way of hard feelings if that closeness ends.
Tobias Wolff
