Few things will pay you bigger dividends in life than the time and trouble you take to understand people and build relationships. As

You just need to be positive, believe in yourself, and focus on others.

Author and conference speaker Richard Exley explained his idea of friendship this way: "A true friend is one who hears and understands when you share your deepest feelings. He supports you when you are struggling; he corrects you, gently and with love, when you err; and he forgives you when you fail. A true friend prods you to personal growth, stretches you to your full potential. And most amazing of all, he celebrates your successes as if they were his own.

It takes quantity as well as quality to develop warm and caring relationships.

My friend Dan Reiland says, "A genuine friend encourages and challenges us to live out our best thoughts, honor our purest motives, and achieve our most significant dreams." That's what we need to do with the important people in our lives.

Charles Schwab: Be friends with everybody. When you have friends you will know there is somebody who will stand by you. You know the old saying, that if you have a single enemy you will find him everywhere. It doesn't pay to make enemies. Lead the life that will make you kind and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will live.

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.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Friendship involves many things but, above all the power of going outside oneself and appreciating what is noble and loving in another.

A friendship that can end, never really began.

An honest answer is like a kiss of friendship.