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Quotes About Our Relationships

And How We Treat Others

1. It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice - Unknown

2. A hug is like a boomerang, you get it back right away - Family Circus

3. Life's most urgent question is: what are you doing for others?
    - Martin Luther King Jr.

4. When you choose your friends, you choose the path of your life
    - Thomas S. Monson

5. The only way to have a friend is to be one - Anonymous

6. A hug is the handshake from the heart - Unknown

7. A hug is the jumper cable of the heart - Unknown

8. Perfect love casteth out all fear - Moroni 8:16

9. When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: They are as clever as you - Irving Layton

10. Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft - Franklin Roosevelt

11. Listen, or thy tongue will make thee deaf - Native American Proverb

12. I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance - Samuel Johnson

13. Fear not those who argue, but those who dodge
    - Marie Von Ebner Eschenbach

14. You can't pick up women  by putting them down - Brandon Hegedus

15. Love gives itself; it is not bought - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

16. The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost
    - Gilbert K. Chesterton

17. If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving - Unknown

18. People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges
    - Joseph F. Newton

19. Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the intensest hatreds - Antoine Rivarol

20. If you have no enemies, you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends - Elbert Hubbard

21. A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship - John D. Rockefellar

22. Friendship is one mind in two bodies - Mencius

23. Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity
    - Hahlil Gibran

24. No man is useless while he has a friend - Robert Louis Stevenson

25. Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight
    - English Proverb

26. Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship - Lord Byron

27. Love is blind; Friendship closes its eyes - Unknown

28. You have not lived a perfect day, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you - Ruth Smeltzer

29. Teamwork is the catalyst that yields excellence from shared strengths
    - Unknown

30. During courtship we should keep our eyes wide open, but after marriage keep them half shut - David O. McKay

31. The best way to destroy an enemy, is to make him a friend
    - unknown

32. Speak well of your enemies, you made them - Unknown

33. Quarrels won't last long, if the fault was only on one side
    - Unknown

34. He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life - Lauter

35. He is dead in the world who has no belief in another - Goethe

36. Friendship doubles your joys and divides your sorrows - Unknown

37. For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required
    - Indian Proverb

38. Friends are those rare people who ask you how you are and then wait to hear the answer - Unknown

39. Choose your love, love your choice - Thomas S. Monson

40. Some people give and forgive, others get and forget - Unknown

41. The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion - Unknown

42. Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him? - Brigham Young

43. The path that leads to happiness is so narrow that two cannot walk on it unless they become one - Unknown

44. A kiss is something that brings two people so close together that they cannot see anything wrong with each other - Unknown

45. Love the giver more than the gift - Brigham Young

46. It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another - George McDonald

47. Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth
    - Unknown

48. Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition - Alexander Smith

49. God gave us two ears and one mouth so we can hear twice as much as we say - Unknown

50. Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow - Unknown

51. There is only one rule to become a good talker, learn how to listen
    - Unknown

52. If my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them, I would be at the bottom to catch them - Unknown

53. Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to, does not mean they don't love you with all they have - Unknown

54. A best friend is someone who loves you when you forget to love yourself
    - Unknown

55. An injury can grieve us only when remembered. The noblest revenge therefore, is to forget - Unknown

56. To err is human, to forgive divine - Alexander Pope

57. Before you flare up at anyone's faults, take time to count ten... of your own - A Pentecostal Evangelist

68. He who flings mud, looses allot of ground - Unknown

69. You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them - Unknown

70. One who cares is one who listens - J. Richard Clarke

71. Seek first to understand before being understood - J. Richard Clarke

72. Before you give someone a piece of your mind, be sure you can get along with what you have left - Unknown

73. People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care - Unknown

74. Man is at his best when complimented by the influence of a good woman - Ezra Taft Benson

75. Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one road - Charles Henry Parkhurst

76. If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with - Crosby

77. It is the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered - Aeschylus

78. It is better to be trusted than to be loved - David O. McKay

79. Where the power of love overcomes the love of power, there will be peace - Unknown

80. To do right is not always popular; To be popular is not always right
    - Unknown

81. Do I not destroy an enemy when I make him my friend - Abe Lincoln

82. The hardest thing to do is watch the one you love, love someone else
    - Unknown

83. Don't let anyone pull on your heartstrings unless they plan to tie them to their own - Emily Sheridan

84. All that I am or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother - Abe Lincoln

85. A friend who lies for you, may also lie against you – Unknown

86. Don’t worry about knowing people, make yourself worth knowing                       - Unknown

87. When spider webs unite they can tie up a lion – Unknown

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