Hoda Kotb Quotes

I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I think I'm unusual among the writers I know in that respect.

I have my own high standards for what I want in a partner and how I want to be treated. I bring a lot to the table. I'm not talking about material things but what I have to offer as a person - love and loyalty and all the things that make a good relationship.

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

The beauty of social awareness is that a few simple adjustments to what you say can vastly improve your relationships with other people.

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

I know what it takes to be a good boyfriend. Time, first and foremost. To be there for someone and be involved in their life.

No one has really ever defined what a friend is.

You can't build anything with a flimsy foundation. Friendship is the foundation.

All of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.

Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.

Any friendship or relationship is about a language.

I think one of the most important things in a relationship is caring for your significant other through good times and bad.

Friendship is the most important thing of all.

I've always had a lot of female friends. And guy friends too. And people have always come to me for advice about things.

I think, when you get to know somebody on a personal level were you truly understand what makes them tick, what they play for, things they like to do in their spare time, you're around their families, I think you're kind of able to kind of coexist more when you have a relationship.

When we're talking about friendships, generosity and fairness and equanimity and sharing and all those things are super-important to me.

I like friendship.

The thing that I regret is not having better relationships with a lot of people. Being the hard-nosed guy that I was, I think I could've come off a little bit better in my relationships with a lot of people, and I didn't.

Friendship brings in a lot of honesty and trust into any relationship, especially a marriage.

The good life is built with good relationships.

A friendship has to be cultivated. A friendship you have to give time.

Friends are the support bras of life.

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

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

For me, romance isn't an over-the-top act. It's someone offering to help and to support me. Or if that person thinks I'm making the wrong decision, he'll tell me. I want him to be honest, because being that honest takes a lot of guts.