Abraham Lincoln Quotes

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

Sustaining true friendship is a lot more challenging than we give it credit for.

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you're most ashamed of.

A friend is someone who will allow me to be a really bad friend and not hold it against me.

Friends accept you the way you are.

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

I think a good friend, to me, is all about trust and loyalty. You don't ever want to second-guess whether you can tell your friend something.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

The most special relationships, in my experience, are based on a combination of trust and mutual respect.

Any friendship or relationship is about a language.

She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

To be a friend means that they are always there, for the good or the bad.

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

If you do something with acceptance and kindness, you can create a true friendship.

Friendship is the most important thing of all.

What I really appreciate in my friends is that they really respect me.

People will trust you a lot more if you show them you care about them besides basketball. It's deeper.