Friendly Quotes

• Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

  Joseph Addison

  Happiness, Inspiration, Health

  "Pray It Forward:daily Meditations". Book by Rowena Holloway and Joyce Bullion, p. 25, 2007.

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  There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

  Martin Luther

  Love, Friendship, Relationship

  "Table Talk" by Martin Luther, (p. 292), 1569.

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• One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

  Hermann Hesse

  Time, Home, House

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• It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Friendship, Wise

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (1965). “Gandhi on Non-violence”, p.62, New Directions Publishing

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• The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspirational, Happiness, Inner Peace

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.90, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

  Samuel Butler

  Funny, Friendship, Sarcastic

  Samuel Butler (2008). “The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.126, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

  Abdul Kalam

  Inspirational, Dream, Being Alone

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• Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?

  Bertrand Russell

  Hate, Successful, Hatred

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.53, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Competition is great. And as long as it's friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it's cool.

  Janet Jackson

  Thinking, Long, Competition

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• Environmentally friendly cars will soon cease to be an option...they will become a necessity.

  Fujio Cho

  Nature, Science, Car

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• When the mother of the race is free, we shall have a better world, by the easy right of birth and by the calm, slow, friendly forces of evolution.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Mother, Race, World

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “Women and Economics - A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution: From the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and a respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, well-known for her stories The Yellow Wallpaper and Herland”, p.145, e-artnow

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• From 8,000 miles away... I would not judge a fellow soldier from a friendly nation and how they are employing their resources.

  Peter Pace

  Judging, Soldier, Pace

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• It's pretty well known that the CIA has been installing friendly dictators around the world for years.

  S. Robson Walton

  Years, World, Dictator

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• God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.

  W. H. Auden

  God, Usa, America

  W. H. Auden, “On The Circuit”

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• We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can't relate by talking to a group of friendly students, he'll never be a competent teacher.

  William Glasser

  Teacher, Retirement, Talking

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• I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.

  Lee Iacocca

  Leadership, Hands, Important

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• It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness and generosity. It is for you to observe her with renewed and friendly attention.

  Pope John XXIII

  Generosity, Catholic, Church

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• A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table.

  Jean Kerr

  Jobs, Divorce, Tables

  Jean Kerr (1965). “Mary, Mary”, p.33, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Anything that prevents you from being friendly, a good neighbour, is a terror tactic.

  Richard Stallman

  Tactics, Terror, Neighbour

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• America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Dog, Small Rooms, America

  1949 Letter, 26 Oct.

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• We're really quite nice and friendly, but everyone has a beastly side to them, don't they?

  Sid Vicious

  Nice, Sides, Beastly

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• At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly.

  Jim Bishop

  Birthday, Looks, Tomorrow

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• Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure.

  Emanuel Celler

  Travel, Philosophy, Inspiration

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• I wouldn't mind paying taxes... if I knew they were going to a friendly country

  Dick Gregory

  Country, Mind, Paying Taxes

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• Everybody at school knew who I was because I'm just a really friendly person.

  Corbin Bleu

  School, Friendly Person, Persons

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