A collection of quotes about getting along with friends, family, and others from past, present, famous, and unknown authors.
"The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life." - Richard Bach
"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed." - Khalil Gibran
"The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it." - Hubert H. Humphrey
"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out." - Walter Winchell
"Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends." - Virginia Woolf
"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone." - Orson Welles
"One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"The only way to have a friend is to be one." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There is nothing on this earth more prized than true friendship." - Thomas Aquinas
"Friends are the siblings God never gave us." - Mencius
"The language of friendship is not words but meanings." - Henry David Thoreau
"A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world." - Leo Buscaglia.
"There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met." - William Butler Yeats
"Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything." - Muhammad Ali
"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit." - Aristotle
"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant." - Socrates
"Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world." - John Evelyn
"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival." - C.S. Lewis
"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." - Anaïs Nin
"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you." - Elbert Hubbard
"True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable." - David Tyson
"Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow; Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead; Walk beside me… just be my friend." -Albert Camus
"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." - Charles Caleb Colton
"In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends." - John Churton Collins
"If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you." - Winnie the Pooh
"There is no friend as loyal as a book." - Ernest Hemingway
"There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love." - Bryant H. McGill
"Friends are the family you choose." - Jess C. Scott
"Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words." - George Eliot
"The best time to make friends is before you need them." - Ether Barrymore
"A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden." - Unknown
"Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life–and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next." - Dean Koontz
"Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer." - Ed Cunningham
"Everyone has a friend during each stage of life. But only lucky ones have the same friend in all stages of life." - Anamika Mishra
"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." - Marcel Proust
"A real friend is one who never gets tired of listening to your pointless dramas over and over again." - Lavanya Sankaran
"Friendship isn't about who you've known the longest, it's about who walked into your life, said “I’m here for you” and proved it." - Unknown
"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." - Maya Angelou
"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see." - Mark Twain
"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." - Aesop
"The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority." - Ken Blanchard
"I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things." - Mother Teresa
"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The best way to predict your future is to create it." - Abraham Lincoln
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." - Henry David Thoreau
"The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are." - Goldie Hawn
"The best way out is always through." - Robert Frost
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." - Albert Schweitzer
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." - Samuel Johnson
"It is the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed." - Charles Darwin
"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist." - Indira Gandhi
"Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally." - David Frost
"In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed." - Sid Caesar
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do." - Steve Jobs
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." - Winston Churchill
"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up." - Mark Twain
"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination." - Albert Einstein
"Success is not in what you have, but who you are." - Bo Bennett
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person." - Mother Teresa
"The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible." - Charles Kingsleigh
"Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding." - Albert Einstein
"The only journey is the one within." - Rainer Maria Rilke
"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." - Abraham Lincoln
"The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows." - Buddha
"Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love." - Mother Teresa
"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." - Socrates
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke
"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The only source of knowledge is experience." - Albert Einstein
"There are no traffic jams along the extra mile." - Roger Staubach
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." - Henry Ford
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible." - Arthur C. Clarke
"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary." - Vidal Sassoon
"The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first." - Ginger Rogers.
"In the long history of humankind, those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed." - Charles Darwin
"We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success." - Henry Ford
"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much." - Helen Keller
"If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself." - Henry Ford
"The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team." - Phil Jackson
"Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved." - Mattie Stepanek
"It is the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) that those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed." - Charles Darwin
"No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it." - H.E. Luccock
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle
"Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all." - Alexander the Great
"In union there is strength." - Aesop
"People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them." - Dr. Allan Fromme
"Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life." - Amy Poehler
"Unity without verity is no better than conspiracy." - John Trapp
"The way a team plays as a whole determines its success." - Babe Ruth
"The ratio of We's to I's is the best indicator of the development of a team." - Lewis B. Ergen
"One piece of log creates a small fire, adequate to warm you up, add just a few more pieces to blast an immense bonfire, large enough to warm up your entire circle of friends; needless to say that individuality counts but team work dynamites." - Jin Kwon
"There is more power in unity than division." - Emanuel Cleaver
"Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking." - Mahatma Gandhi
"In crucial things, unity. In important things, diversity. In ALL things, generosity." - George H. W. Bush
"Together, ordinary people can achieve extraordinary results." - Becka Schoettle
"We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided." - J.K. Rowling
"Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there." - Virginia Burden
"Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean." - Ryunosuke Satoro
"Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision." - Andrew Carnegie
"It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed." - Napolean Hill
"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." - African Proverb
"Collaboration allows teachers to capture each other's fund of collective intelligence." - Mike Schmoker
"In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged." - Hans Nouwens
"Together we can face any challenges as deep as the ocean and as high as the sky." - Sonia Gandhi
"Strength lies in differences, not in similarities." - Stephen Covey
"Many hands make light work." - John Heywood
"It takes two flints to make a fire." - Louisa May Alcott
"Unity is strength, division is weakness." - Swahili Proverb
"Politeness is the poison of collaboration." - Edwin Land
"I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively." - Golda Meir
"Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships." - Michael Jordan
"Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see." - Henry Adams