Top 100 To Make Friends Quotes
#1. My mother, who was radiant, young, and beautiful even as she lay dying, heard voices and saw visions, but she always managed to make friends with them and was much too charming to hospitalize even at her craziest.
Mark Vonnegut
#2. It is easier for an ambitious friend to become an enemy than for an enemy to become a friend. It is even easier to make friends than you can find people to trust as friends.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#3. Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.
Haruki Murakami
#4. She tried to make friends, but her peers immersed themselves in frivolities that held no interest to her. She tried to respect her elders, but most adults seemed like nothing more than aging children, lacking
Dan Brown
#5. Go outside occasionally to smoke a cigarette. It's a good way to make friends, it makes you look cool, and you're already dead on the inside, anyway.
Thought Catalog
#6. The key to keep a great friendship is not to make friends with the people who are really not your friend.
Hiroko Sakai
#7. I'm vicious. I can be nice off the ice, but on the ice, that's not where it's time to make friends.
Ashley Wagner
#8. It seems like a contradiction, but the shy person who is a performer actually does make sense, because in a way, when you're young and shy, making people laugh is a good way to make friends. It's an instant connection.
Paul Merton
#10. The political nature of man made it highly unlikely that a society designed to meet regularly would remain peaceable. "The way to make friends quarrel is to pit them in disputation under the public eye," Jefferson said.
Jon Meacham
#11. I found it hard to make friends in school, because I was a cerebral person.
Lana Del Rey
#12. Though it is a great mistake to make friends of the wicked and foolish, it is unwise to make enemies of them, for they are very numerous.
John Lubbock
#13. If we want to make friends, let's greet people with animation and enthusiasm.
Dale Carnegie
#14. [after guard dogs frozen mid-attack] 'How long are the dogs going to stay hanging there like that?' ask Yulia. 'I want to make friends with them. Otherwise, i'll be left with a latent psychological complex that's bound to affect my personality and sexual preferences.
Sergei Lukyanenko
#15. I don't come to tournaments to make friends, to go to parties, to hold conversations. I come to be the best, and I'm not mean and cruel and dirty.
Venus Williams
#16. I wanted to come home, but I was embarrassed. There are things worse than embarrassment like my little sister thinking I didn't care about her. You needed me and I'd been dying without you. Turns out, I'm not likable enough to make friends who aren't my sister.
Bijou Hunter
#17. I'm not trying to make friends, I'm trying to make money.
Kevin O'Leary
#18. Being a nerd, which is to say going to far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know. For me, the spark that turns an acquaintance into a friend has usually been kindled by some shared enthusiasm like detective novels or Ulysses S. Grant.
Sarah Vowell
#19. How does one keep from "growing old inside"? Surely only in community. The only way to make friends with time is to stay friends with people ... Taking community seriously not only gives us the companionship we need, it also relieves us of the notion that we are indispensable.
Robert McAfee Brown
#20. How am I going to make friends with these people if all I can think of is how easy it would be to rob them?
Trudi Canavan
#21. We should teach our children to make friends with us, to communicate all their thoughts to us ... by this we find many opportunities of teaching them important truths, almost without knowing.
Henry Kirke White
#22. I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.
Rose Kennedy
#23. Any idiot or imbecile can easily make enemies; the important and the hard thing is to make friends easily and keep them as friends always!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#24. I hear a lot of young people talking about the need to network. I think that is true, and I think that building a network makes sense. But I also think that there is another way to approach it, and that is to try to make friends. Just try to make a lot of friends.
Dana Perino
#25. Turning your nose up at a genuine and sincere gesture of hospitality is no way to travel or to make friends around the world.
Anthony Bourdain
#26. I've had to make friends with an awful lot of bad fashion choices.
Robbie Williams
#27. It's scary to make friends, it's scarier to stand up for a friend, but it's scariest to not be a friend for fear will be your only company.
Justine Hail
#28. I think the healthy way to live is to make friends with the beast inside oneself, and that means not the beast but the shadow. The dark side of one's nature. Have fun with it and you know, is to accept everything about ourselves.
Anthony Hopkins
#29. It's not easy to make friends when you're an adult writer outside of academia, especially when you work alone in a little room for twelve hours a day, and so I wrote toward what I most longed for.
Lauren Groff
#30. Probably everything we do is a publicity stunt ... we are not here to gather members, to please, to placate, to make friends. We're here to hold the radical line.
Ingrid Newkirk
#31. With nature on your side, you don't need numbers, you don't need financing and you certainly don't need to make friends with people you should be fighting
against.
Christopher Rankin
#32. In order to make friends you must first be friendly
Dale Carnegie
#33. The overriding goal of counterinsurgency is to make friends: You make friends with the people; you isolate the insurgents.
Dexter Filkins
#34. I was very young, and I kind of decided I wanted to do comedy. My parents were musicians, so we traveled on a tour bus. You're in a different town every night; as a kid, you're trying to make friends fast. You try to be funny.
Trevor Moore
#36. Customers do not want to "make friends"; they want to see results and substantive relationships provide those.
Paul Cherry
#37. I've always had to force myself to make friends and speak to people. My parents were quiet, and it took me a while to get used to the fact that people talk about their feelings, their problems.
Helen Hunt
#38. Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.
Sarah Vowell
#39. I would sooner be a foreigner in Spain than in most countries. How easy it is to make friends in Spain!
George Orwell
#40. Find someone hypersocial and crazy and try not to follow them to their doom, but to make friends with their nicer friends.
Whit Stillman
#41. Women like other women fine. The more feminine she is, the more comfortable a woman feels with her own sex. It is only the occasional and therefore noticeable adventuress who refuses to make friends with us.
Phyllis McGinley
#42. Or is it this: To be sick and send away the comforters, and to make friends of the deaf, who never hear your requests?
Friedrich Nietzsche
#43. Nobody starts a band to make friends; you do it because of the music.
Matt Tong
#45. But the most dangerous thing that camp had taught me was the awful lesson of country living: out there, in the open, in the quiet, all the emptiness pressed itself up against you, pawed at the very center of your heart, convinced you to make friends with loneliness.
Kaitlyn Greenidge
#46. I find it not hard to make friends, but it's definitely different when I go somewhere like summer camp and everyone already knows that I'm in 'Hunger Games' ... My life is still pretty normal, and I still have some really great friends.
Willow Shields
#47. Cath wasn't trying to make new friends here. In some cases, she was actively trying not to make friends, though she usually stopped short of being rude.
Rainbow Rowell
#48. You're not a little kid anymore. You need to make friends, get out of the house, and live your life.
John Green
#49. The pleasantest of all diversions is to sit alone under the lamp, a book spread out before you, and to make friends with people of a distant past you have never known.
Yoshida Kenko
#50. I have feelings, but not when it comes to basketball. I'm here to win. I'm not here to make friends.
Kenyon Martin
#51. I believe more and more that this business is about people. People, people. The idea is to make friends at the retail level, the warehouse level, let people see you exist, can form sentences and have an interest in something other than yourself.
David Lee Roth
#52. I had no interest in sports so I didn't make friends in that traditional way where kids are in public school and they go and they join clubs, and play sports. So I kind of had to find my own way to make friends and get attention and so I just was the class clown.
Zach Braff
#53. One of the quickest ways to make friends mad is to tell them what they should or shouldn't have done.
Sam Horn
#54. This is a very small world; we are all within hail of each other. I dare say when we get to Heaven there will not be a stranger to make friends with.
Sarah Orne Jewett
#55. I founded Friends of the Earth to make the Sierra Club look reasonable. Then I founded the Earth Island Institute to make Friends of the Earth seem reasonable.
David Foreman
#56. I don't hang out with the Hollywood cool people. I'm not out trying to make friends with people because they're famous.
Jessica Alba
#57. When you move from a different country, it takes a while to make friends. I found myself being lonely a lot at first. In New Delhi, I had all my family. But Portland is one of those cities you can immerse yourself in and feel comfortable. People are so friendly.
Kunal Nayyar
#59. I went to something like six different schools before the age of 12, so I was always the new girl and had to make friends quickly. It was difficult at the start because I was very bookish - I was literally sat in the corner reading books, with no friends.
Isla Fisher
#60. We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time to make friends of our enemies.
Pythagoras
#61. A sense of humor saves your life, and being able to make friends wherever you go.
Jason O'Mara
#62. Assume you will make enemies. Work to make allies. Don't expect to make friends. Friends are a gift that happens over time.
Thea Harrison
#64. Neither old people nor sour people seem to make friends easily; for there is little that is pleasant in them ...
Aristotle.
#65. Abraham Lincoln was often criticized for trying to make friends with his enemies instead of trying to get rid of them. He replied, Isn't that what I'm doing when I make an enemy a friend?
Sean Covey
#66. I'm not trying to make friends, I'm just trying to make money.
Kevin O'Leary
#67. I guess I was always a ham, and I was anxious to try doing different things. I started doing impressions to make friends at school. I would do them during recess. Maybe some of the kids thought I was being weird, but everyone seemed to have a good time.
Vesta Williams
#68. I'm not here to make friends. Our forces successfully conquered their northern territories regardless of their deals. And I will take the rest of Tamoura next.
Marie Lu
#70. It's always nice to make friends; friends is good.
Slim Jimmy
#71. And maybe if I can find a way to stop being scared, I'll actually figure out how to make friends. To be strong. To stop wallowing in my own problems.
Tahereh Mafi
#72. It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.
Benjamin Haydon
#73. He didn't come to make friends. He's got fire in his eyes and a sword in his mouth and he came to cut the world in half.
Isaac Marion
#74. Generosity is self-existing openness, complete openness. You are no longer subject to cultivating your own scheme or project. And the best way to open yourself up is to make friends with yourself and with others.
Chogyam Trungpa
#75. There's no stronger bulwark of sound conservatism than the evangelical church, and no better place to make friends who'll help you to gain your rightful place in the community than in your own church-home!
Sinclair Lewis
#76. Without opium, plans, marriages and journeys appear to me just as foolish as if someone falling out of a window were to hope to make friends with the occupants of the room before which he passes.
Jean Cocteau
#77. There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful,
And who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.
Ogden Nash
#78. Ask questions then talk over answers, shout loudly you love everyone, try and hug people, confide in them that you are a sheep, offer them the last grass in your pockets.
Then watch with a smile as they pretend you aren't there, and whisper you must be crazy, because you want to make friends.
Craig Stone
#79. Instead, we must learn how to make friends with our hardships and challenges. They are there to help us; they are natural opportunities for deeper understanding and transformation, bringing us more joy and peace as we learn to work with them.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#80. It's easy to make friends, but hard to get rid of them.
Mark Twain
#81. Anacharsis coming to Athens, knocked at Solon's door, and told him that he, being a stranger, was come to be his guest, and contract a friendship with him; and Solon replying, "It is better to make friends at home," Anacharsis replied, "Then you that are at home make friendship with me.
Plutarch
#82. I looked up at the sky. A mother wants to make friends with her daughter. The daughter wants a mother more than a friend. Ships passing in broad daylight. Mother has a boyfriend. A homeless, one-armed poet. Father also has a boyfriend. A gay Boy Friday. What does the daughter have?
Haruki Murakami
#83. That's what prayers are ... it's frightened people trying to make friends with the bully!
Terry Pratchett
#84. If you want to make friends, go out of your way to do things for other people
things that require time, energy, unselfishness, and thoughtfulness.
Lawrence G. Lovasik
#85. I started doing community theatre as a way to make friends, and that was when I caught the acting bug.
Christina Hendricks
#86. From a simple, mammal perspective, you think you're going to make friends through the movie. You think, "Oh, this kind of humor that I play with will bring people that have a similar kind of humor. I'll make new friends," or something. You don't even think in terms of audience or of money.
Gaspar Noe
#87. It is not necessary to have enemies if you go out of your way to make friends hate you.
Frank Dane
#88. Ganix didn't need to make friends. Everyone was a friend!
C.J. Milbrandt
#89. People say Seattle is one of the toughest cities in which to make friends. They even have a name for it, the 'Seattle freeze'.
Maria Semple
#90. Don't you run around here trying to make friends with somebody who's depriving you of your rights. They're not your friends, no, they're your enemies. Treat them like that.
Malcolm X
#91. You know what truth is? [ ... ] It's some crazy thing my neighbor believes. If I want to make friends with him, I ask him what he believes. He tells me, and I say, Yeah, yeah - ain't it the truth?
Kurt Vonnegut
#92. In some cases, she was actively trying not to make friends, though she usually stopped short of being rude. (Uptight, tense, and mildly misanthropic? Yes. Rude? No.)
Rainbow Rowell
#93. In the big city nobody has time to make friends. The big city is a big solitude.
Vicki Baum
#94. Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn't it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?
Bono
#95. I was depressed as a child. I found it hard to make friends. My favourite thing was locking myself in the bathroom and practising comedy routines.
David Walliams
#96. I didn't have that many friends my first few years of high school. It was very cliquey and I'm super shy, so it was hard to make friends.
Dylan O'Brien
#97. Sometimes it was difficult to make friends and be social in school because I was always practicing while other kids were getting together and doing things. But it just made me closer to my family, and I realized that they would always be there no matter what.
Nancy Kerrigan
#98. The practice of sympathetic joy is rooted in inner development. It's not a matter of learning techniques to "make friends and influence people." Instead, we build the foundations of our own happiness. When our own cup is full, we more easily share it with others.
Sharon Salzberg
#99. No one gave me the secret decoder ring on how to make friends.
Sharon E. Rainey
#100. You send a girl to school in order to make friends - the right sort.
Virginia Woolf
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