Tony Orlando Quotes

My real friends never hearin from me, fake friends write the wrong answers on the mirror for me

I don't need to go onto Facebook and pretend to have friends I've never even met. To my mind, that kind of destroys the meaning of the word 'friend.' I take exception to that. Because I value and respect friendship.

Few people can resist doing what is universally expected of them. This invisible pressure is more difficult to stand against than individual tyranny.

All the time, there was the weight of my community's expectations on my shoulders.

But there was a lot of pressure to achieve and to get things right, whether in school, on stage or with my peers and family.

Dare to love and to be a real friend. The love you give and receive is a reality that will lead you closer and closer to God as well as those whom God has given you to love.

A real friend isn't capable of feeling sorry for you.

The proper way to create friends is to have a warm heart, not simply money or power. The friend of power and the friend of money are something different.

Sincerity may not help us make friends, but it will help us keep them.

It is expressions of affection rather than money and power that attract real friends.

A real friend ... exults in his friend’s happiness, rejoices in all his joys, and is ready to afford him the best advice.

The first thing I'd say to women is put aside the guilt. I think we're all genetically programmed to feel guilty for not giving total effort at the job.

In my little world, I'm very protected 'cause I'm treated like the idiot I am by my buddies. But, a little bit outside that world, people sometimes expect heavy things from me. For a little time, I tried to appease and not disappoint people but in the end you're just going to kill yourself and fail if you're trying to give more than you are.

Everyone expects me to do certain things.

Either be a true friend or a mere stranger: a true friend will delight to do good--a mere stranger will do no harm.

It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.

My mantra is "I don't want to let anybody down." Maybe that's not the right attitude, because you can't please everybody. But I'm giving it everything I've got.

If we merely try to impress people and get people interested in us, we will never have many true, sincere friends. Friends, real friends, are not made that way.

Actors basically are the type of person that with three seconds left, we want the ball. Give us the shot to make it or miss it. We'll take the lumps if we miss it, but we want the chance to get the glory.

So, what are you doing tonight?" Me?" Janie laughs. "Homework, of course." You want company?" Carrie's looking wistful. Do you have homework to do?" Of course. WEther I do it or not is the real question.

A true friend never asks you to feed their imaginary fish. Or fertilize their imaginary crops.

Never ask, "Who is my real friend?" Ask, "Am I a real friend to somebody?" That is the right question. Always be concerned with yourself.

Women work overtime, do double triple duty, juggle ten balls at once -- children, careers, husbands, schoolwork, housework, church work, and more work -- and when one of the balls drops, we think something is wrong with us.

My friend is one... who take me for what I am.