Friendship Quotations and Quotes about Relationships

Friendship Quotes

Famed Relationship Quotes and Sayings

First published: Yahoo voices 2009

Communication is an important part of relationships but sometimes it's hard for people to find the words they really want to say. Here is a selection of Quotations from those who have reflected on relationships; their words giving a glimpse of insight into how bonds are formed.

Relationship Quotations About Give and Take

Everyone feels the need for affection at some time but this should involve giving as much as taking as the following quotations suggest:

• "Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they're trying to find someone who's going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take." -Anthony Robbins

• "The value of a relationship is in direct proportion to the time that you invest in the relationship." - Brian Tracy

• "A deadness occurs in when people are no longer willing to tell each other how they really feel." - Shakti Gawain

Good Relationship Quotes and Sayings About the True Meaning of Friendship

Often displays of affection are worthless if the actions are not followed through with genuine feelings as in the following quotations:

• "The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships." - Anthony Robbins

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

• "To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic." - Alphonse de Lamartine

• "Some people come into our lives and leave footprints on our hearts and we are never ever the same." - Flavia Weedn

• "No road is long with good company." - Turkish Proverb

Relationship Quotes About Friendship

The following quotations might be used to convey sentiments about friendships for those who wish to get their feelings across but can't find the right words:

• "Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." - Marcel Proust

• "Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." - Anais Nin

• "Soul-mates are people who bring out the best in you. They are not perfect but are always perfect for you." - Author Unknown

• "No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another." - Charles Dickens

• "Our greatest joy-and our greatest pain comes in our relationships with others." - Stephen R. Covey

• "Man is a knot into which relationships are tied." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

• "A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart." - Author Unknown

• "The fundamental glue that holds any relationship together is trust." - Brian Tracy

• "Personal are the fertile soil from which all advancement...all success... all achievement in real life grows." - Ben Stein

• "The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed." - Carl Jung

Quotations About

Relationships as a Means of Understanding Self

Through their relationships people can learn to understand themselves better as is expressed in the following quotations:

• "The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are." - Stephen R. Covey

• "Don't rush into any kind of relationship. Work on yourself. Feel yourself, experience yourself and love yourself. Do this first and you will soon attract that special loving other." - Russ Von Hoelscher

• "Before we can have a successful relationship with anyone, we first need a perfect personal relationship." - Russ Von Hoelscher

Relationship Quotes can be inscribed on cards, attached to gifts or added to a letter, email or text messages as a way to convey people's feelings about their relationships.

Sources

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