Margaret Mead Quotes

We know that there can never be any solid friendship between individuals, or union between communities that is worth the name, unless the parties be persuaded of each other’s honesty.

A friend must not be injured, even in jest.

There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.

Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is not worth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be.

It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.

One piece of advice that always stuck in my mind is that people should be respected and trusted as people, not because of their position or title.

I have a rule on my team: when we talk to one another, we look each other right in the eye, because I think it's tough to lie to somebody. You give respect to somebody.

Honesty is the quality I value most in a friend. Not bluntness, but honesty with compassion.

Without a commitment to privacy, respect, love, friendship and trust are simply inconceivable.

I value nothing more highly than to be allowed the honor of entering into bonds of friendship with people who sincerely love truth. For ... I believe there is nothing in the world which we can love with tranquility except such men.

Amity itself can only be maintained by reciprocal respect, and true friends are punctilious equals.

You can't have friendships that aren't based on realness.

If you want me to be honest, be honest with me.

You can never maintain a friendship if you don't tell the truth, even if it hurts.

It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist.

We only need to be as true to others as we are to ourselves, that there may be grounds enough for friendship.

A blessed thing it is to have a friend; one human soul whom we can trust utterly; who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults; who will speak the honest truth to us, while the world flatters us to our face, and laughs at us behind our back; who will give us counsel and reproof in a day of prosperity and self-conceit; but who, again, will comfort and encourage us in days of difficulty and sorrow, when the world leaves us alone to fight our own battle as we can.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

I think it is incredibly important to be open and accessible and treat people fairly and look them in the eye and tell them what is on your mind.

I think maintaining relationships with my friends, my mother, my manager, they're all important.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when.