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 -
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
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 -
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