Friendship Quotes - Page 8

Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

You're the first, the last, and my everything and the answer to all my dreams. You're my sun, my moon, my guiding star, my kind of wonderful, that's what you are

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

You were the one who made things different, you were the one who took me in. You were the one thing I could count on, above all, you were my friend.

If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. but if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly. If he shut the doors of the house of mourning against me, I would move back again and again and beg to be admitted so that I might share in what I was entitled to share. If he thought me unworthy, unfit to weep with him, I should feel it as the most poignant humiliation.

A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

. . . success is a combination of many things, but a good character is the foundation of the kind of success that will bring you real happiness. Choose your friends wisely-they will make or break you.

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing...that is a friend who cares.

There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

In a friend you find a second self.

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see. I sought my God, but my God eluded me. I sought my brother and I found all three.

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

Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.