Charles Fried Quotes

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.

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

Most good relationships are built on mutual trust and respect.

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

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 pick-up artist gave me a good piece of advice: the three most important things in a relationship are honesty, trust and respect, and if you don't have those, you don't have love.

A healthy relationship is built on unwavering trust.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

I want a happy marriage and whatever it takes to achieve that. But I think the main prerequisite would have to be respect. He would have to respect me and vice-versa. And, that would be more important than being in love. I think respect really goes a long way. And he would have to keep me happy. And he'd have to be very, very, secure.

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

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

People treat me like family, 'cause I've always treated them like family.

A relationship succeeds when obstacles are met with communication and resolution. A relationship flourishes when we take the beloved as our teacher. Shared goals create a transformative, interwoven path.

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

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

You can never take those you love for granted, and you have to be willing to be open and really communicate with one another to make any relationship work. And that's just it: relationships take work, and they take compromise and compassion and understanding.

Friendship and sentiment and the giving of one's words are very important.

Relationships feed on credibility, honesty, and consistency.

When you love somebody, you gotta be honest with them even if it'll hurt them.

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

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.

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

I take friendship very seriously.

The best proof of love is trust.