Friendly
Having the temper and disposition of a friend; disposed to promote the good of another; kind; favorable.
Appropriate to, or implying, friendship; befitting friends; amicable.
Not hostile; as, a friendly power or state.
Promoting the good of any person; favorable; propitious; serviceable; as, a friendly breeze or gale.
In the manner of friends; amicably; like friends.
A friendly person; -- usually applied to natives friendly to foreign settlers or invaders.
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Friendly Quotations
It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
Mahatma Gandhi
Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
Martin Luther
I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.
Soren Kierkegaard
Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.
Gertrude Stein
It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.
Gertrude Stein
I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.
Lee Iacocca
Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship.
William Glasser
Prior to being allowed to enter the profession, prospective teachers should be asked to talk with a group of friendly students for at least half an hour and be able to engage them in an interesting conversation about any subject the prospective teacher wants to talk about.
William Glasser
We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can't relate by talking to a group of friendly students, he'll never be a competent teacher.
William Glasser
Friendly Translations
friendly in Afrikaans is vriendelik
friendly in Danish is venlig
friendly in Dutch is voorkomend, lief, aardig, vriendelijk
friendly in French is aimable, avenante, amiable, amical, affable, liant
friendly in German is befreundetem, freundliche
friendly in Latin is comis
friendly in Norwegian is vennskapelig, vennlig
friendly in Spanish is amistoso, risue o
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