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“Every good product I've ever seen is because a group of people cared deeply about making something wonderful that they and their friends wanted. They wanted to use it themselves.”
Steve Jobs
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
Martin Luther King
“I have no friends and no enemies - only competitors.”
Aristotle Onassis
“ Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.”
Socrates
“Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
Mark Twain
“I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.”
Mark Twain
“When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.”
Mark Twain
“I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.”
Oscar Wilde
“Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.”
Bruce Lee
“If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.”
Ray Bradbury
“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”
Jane Austen
“A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.”
Confucius
“Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.”
Confucius
“Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.”
Dalai Lama
“Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?”
Thomas Jefferson
“Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.”
Thomas Jefferson
“I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.”
Andre Gide
“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”
Dale Carnegie
“Friends applaud, the comedy is over.”
Ludwig van Beethoven
“There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.”
Buddha
“You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people, than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”
Bernard Meltzer
“Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?”
Abraham Lincoln
“This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.”
Horace
“My friends, there are no friends.”
Coco Chanel
“Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
Aristotle
“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”
Aristotle
“He who hath many friends hath none.”
Aristotle
“In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.”
Aristotle
“Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.”
Aristotle
