Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes

We've got a lot of friends. We take care of them because they take care of us.

If you're not loyal to your team, you can get by for a while, but eventually you will need to rely on their loyalty to you, and it just won't be there.

Support me and I will fight for you.

People will help each other because there is a sense of camaraderie that springs up, which is a survival tactic. You help them because you know you might need their help later. And that is incredibly reassuring.

Between friends there is no need for justice, but people who are just still need the quality of friendship; and indeed friendliness is considered to be justice in the fullest sense.

So I guess you could say Neel owes me a few favors, except that so many favors have passed between us now that they are no longer distinguishable as individual acts, just a bright haze of loyalty. OUr friendship is a nebula. (34)

All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.

To me, it doesn't matter who you are or where you're from - if you're a good person and you got my back, I got yours.

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

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

We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.

We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.

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

Can you persuade people to take your side when you are not sure in the end whether you'll be there to take theirs?

Society is held together by trust.

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.

One of the most important parts of my life has been community.

There are few words in Russian for the Western concept of 'law,' but there are legions of words for connections, helping people from one's neck of the woods.

The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone.

My teammates have my back; I have theirs.

I pay my tax in the belief that you pay yours. I pay for your doctor's visit, in the belief that you pay for mine. In Denmark we don't have gold mines, but we have something more important. We have trust in one another.

No one can do anything by themselves. Sometimes you may need help and sometimes you will be offering it.