Billie Jean King Quotes

I want people to get to know me, because I want to get to know them.

I give everyone upmost respect, and when people feel that, you end up getting the most out of your interaction with them. That connectivity is really important in my life.

I think it takes people to get to know you and the recognition comes over time.

Can we ever really know anyone well? Let's just say we often found ourselves in each other's company and neither of us minded.

In order to build chemistry you've got to really know one another.

I think that sharing experiences with a person is very valuable, because it allows you to have a bond to become closer.

The power of getting to know one another is so immense, eclipsed only by first getting to know ourselves.

If you want a friend, you don't buy a friend, Eric, you earn a friend through love and trust and respect.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

Friendship is something whose depth fits human aspirations and fulfills human possibilities. It has heft to it, as a gold-piece does and a gambling chip does not.

I think we're always looking for an excuse to connect.

Friendship is something that is cultivated.

You don't go to the people that are just like you. You go to the people that you have to earn their credit.

There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life; some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people. People are in many ways one of our greatest treasures.

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman 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.

The key to high-quality communication is trust, and it's hard to trust somebody that you don't know.

I had three stages of knowing Wellington Mara. He was my boss for a long time and he was a father figure. And finally, as we got older, he was my friend.

I believe in order to make a friend, you have to be a friend.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

To be treated well in places where you don't expect to be treated well, to find things in common with people you thought previously you had very, very little in common with, that can't be a bad thing.

We all need somebody to talk to. It would be good if we talked... not just pitter-patter, but real talk. We shouldn't be so afraid, because most people really like this contact; that you show you are vulnerable makes them free to be vulnerable.

You learn a lot about each other from a tour, musically and humanly.