Friendship Quotes - Page 7

The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Friendship requires great communication.

Saint Francis de Sales

When a friend is in trouble don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

Edgar Watson Howe

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Dave Tyson Gentry

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement much disputation and yet more personal liking.

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

Cicero

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute don't accept because you will lose one friend on the other hand if two strangers come with the same request accept because you will gain one friend.

Saint Augustine

There can be no friendship when there is no freedom. Friendship loves the free air and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

You will find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people. Why not make earnest effort to confer that pleasure on others?...Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.

Wear a smile and have friends wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you and you will be surprised what a happy life you will live.

Charles M. Schwab

Those who cannot give friendship will rarely receive it and never hold it.

Dagobert D. Runes

It is not the services we render them but the services they render us that attaches people to us.

Labiche et Martin

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us but for ours to amuse them.

It is foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend as upon the chastity of a wife.

Give and take makes good friends.

Scottish Proverb

A quarrel between friends when made up adds a new tie to friendship as ... the callosity formed 'round a broken bone makes it stronger than before.

Saint Francis de Sales

No real friendship is ever made without an initial clashing which discloses the metal of each to each.

Nothing wounds a friend like a want of confidence.

Jean Baptiste LaCordaire

The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own peculiar ways of being happy provided those ways do not assume to interfere with ours.

No man can have society upon his own terms. If he seeks it he must serve it too.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good friendships are fragile things and require as much care as any other fragile and precious thing.

Randolph Bourne

Remember that you are all people and that all people are you.

Joy Harjo

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies ... and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation to grow as they will by the roadside expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia.

Friendships like marriages are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.

John D. MacDonald

Beware of the danger signals that flag problems: silence secretiveness or sudden outburst.

Eleanor H. Porter

To accept a favor from a friend is to confer one.

John Churton Collins

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others they will live for you.

Paramahansa Yogananda

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 getting out of one's self and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.

Don't ask of your friends what you yourself can do.

Half the secret of getting along with people is consideration of their values the other half is tolerance in one's own views.

A true friend unbosoms freely advises justly assists readily adventures boldly takes all patiently defends courageously and continues a friend unchangeably.

Confidence is the foundation of friendship. If we give it we will receive it.

Harry E. Humphreys

There is a definite process by which one made people into friends and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

Actions not words are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

George Washington

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

Sophocles

Any man will usually get from other men what he is expecting from them. If he is looking for friendship he will likely receive it. If his attitude is that of indifference it will beget indifference. And if a man is looking for a fight he will in all likelihood be accommodated in that.

There is nothing we like to see so much as the gleam of pleasure in a person's eye when he feels that we have sympathized with him understood him interested ourself in his welfare. At these moments something fine and spiritual passes between two friends. These moments are the moments worth living.

He does good to himself who does good to his friend.

Erasmus

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked not endured with patient resignation.

Bertrand Russell

All love that has not friendship for its base Is like a mansion built upon the sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

He [Winston Churchill] has a future and I have a past so we should be all right.

Jennie Jerome Churchill

Parents are friends that life gives us friends are parents that the heart chooses.

[My father] was generous with his affection given to great awkward engulfing hugs and I can remember so clearly the smell of his hugs all starched shirt tobacco Old Spice and Cutty Sark. Sometimes I think I've never been properly hugged since.

Both within the family and without our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to become.

Elizabeth Fishel

Sisters define their rivalry in terms of competition for the gold cup of parental love. It is never perceived as a cup which runneth over rather a finite vessel from which the more one sister drinks the less is left over for the others.

Elizabeth Fishel

The desire to be and have a sister is a primitive and profound one that may have everything or nothing to do with the family a woman is born to. It is a desire to know and be known by someone who shares blood and body history and dreams.

Elizabeth Fishel

Where there is lasting love there is a family.

Is solace anywhere more comforting than in the arms of sisters?

Call it a clan call it a network call it a tribe call it a family: Whatever you call it whoever you are you need one.

Old as she was she still missed her daddy sometimes.

[Families] are made to make you forget yourself occasionally so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.

The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come.

Sandra Day O'Connor

Families will not be broken. Curse and expel them send their children wandering drown them in floods and fires and old women will make songs of all these sorrows and sit in the porches and sing them on mild evenings.

Marilynne Robinson

The family is the building block for whatever solidarity there is in society.

Jill Ruckelshaus

Who ran to help me when I fell And would some pretty story tell Or kiss the place to make it well? My mother.

One can find traces of every life in each life.

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