Tag: Friendship

Quotes August 13, 2024

“There can be no greater gift than that of giving one’s time and energy to help others without expecting anything in return.”
NELSON MANDELA
 
 
 
 
“Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it is a comfort to go hand in hand.”
EMILY KIMBROUGH
 
 
 
 
“Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.”
MOHSIN HAMID
 
 
 
 
“Very little is needed to make a happy life.”
MARCUS AURELIUS
 
 
 
 
“You were born with everything you need to answer the call of your soul.”
MARIE FORLEO
 
 
 
 

Quotes July 06 – 07, 2024

“I guess what everyone wants more than anything else is to be loved.”
Ella Fitzgerald
 
 
 
 
“You have to train your mind as much as your body.”
Venus Williams
 
 
 
 
“If you win through bad sportsmanship, that’s no real victory.”
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
 
 
 
 
“The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step outside the frame.”
Salman Rushdie
 
 
 
 
“If there’s not love present, it’s much, much harder to function. When there’s love present, it’s easier to deal with life.”
Brian Wilson
 
 
 
 
“I paint flowers so they will not die.”
Frida Kahlo
 
 
 
 
“Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.”
Meryl Streep
 
 
 
 
“It isn’t up to the painter to define the symbols. The public who look at the picture must interpret the symbols as they understand them.”
Pablo Picasso
 
 
 
 
“Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don’t have.”
Anthony Bourdain
 
 
 
 
“If you don’t want responsibility, don’t sit in the big chair. To be successful, you must accept full responsibility.”
Pat Summitt
 
 
 
 
“The two of us were on fire every time we sat down to write.”
Paul McCartney on his collaboration with John Lennon
 
 
 
 
“Why, what is to live? Not to eat and drink and breathe—but to feel the life in you down all the fibers of being, passionately and joyfully.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
 
 
 
 
“We must reach out our hand in friendship both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.”
Arthur Ashe
 
 
 
 
“Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country. This is your democracy. Make it. Protect it. Pass it on.”
Thurgood Marshall
 
 
 
 
“I am well aware of the toil and blood and treasure that it will cost us to maintain this Declaration.”
John Adams, July 3, 1776
 
 

Quotes August 23, 2020

The brain is wider than the sky.
Emily Dickinson
 
 
 
 
“It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.”
Seneca
 
 
 
 
“I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.”
Anne Frank
 
 
 
 
“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.”
Oscar Wilde
 
 
 
 
“A year from now you may wish you had started today.”
Karen Lamb
 
 
 
 
“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.”
C.S. Lewis
 
 
 
 
“Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.”
Washington Irving
 
 
 
 
“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”
Ernest Hemingway
 
 
 
 
“There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.”
Jim Henson
 
 
 
 
“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”
Dale Carnegie
 
 
 
 
“A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad.”
Arnold H. Glasgow
 
 
 
 
“One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.”
Clifton Fadiman
 
 
 
 
“I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.”
Plutarch
 
 
 
 
“Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.”
Ed Cunningham
 
 
 
 
“The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?”
Eugene Kennedy
 
 
 
 
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
Anais Nin
 
 
 
 
“Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they’re trying to find someone who’s going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.”
Anthony Robbins
 
 
 
 
“If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.”
Zig Ziglar
 
 
 
 
“There’s one sad truth in life I’ve found
While journeying east and west –
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.”
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Quotes June 30, 2020

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.”
C.S. Lewis
 
 
 
 
“Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.”
Washington Irving
 
 
 
 
“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”
Ernest Hemingway
 
 
 
 
“There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.”
Jim Henson
 
 
 
 
“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”
Dale Carnegie
 
 
 
 
“A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad.”
Arnold H. Glasgow
 
 
 
 
“One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.”
Clifton Fadiman
 
 
 
 
“I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.”
Plutarch
 
 
 
 
“Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.”
Ed Cunningham
 
 
 
 
“The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?”
Eugene Kennedy
 
 
 
 
“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
Alice Walker
 
 
 
 
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
Anais Nin
 
 
 
 
“Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they’re trying to find someone who’s going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.”
Anthony Robbins

Quotes November 02, 2018

Maybe the real victory in Afghanistan was the friends we made along the way.
Blondes Over Baghdad

Quotes July 14, 2018

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
Charles Caleb Colton
 
 
 
 
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
 
 
 
A friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else
Len Wein
 
 
 
 
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival.
C. S. Lewis
 
 
 
 
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
Henry Ford
 
 
 
 
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
 
 
 
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
Thomas Aquinas
 
 
 
 
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
Hubert H. Humphrey
 
 
 
 
Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.
Muhammad Ali
 
 
 
 
It’s not that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but it’s your best friends who are your diamonds. It’s your best friends who are supremely resilient, made under pressure and of astonishing value. They’re everlasting; they can cut glass if they need to.
Gina Barreca
 
 
 
 
A hug is worth a thousand words. A friend is worth more.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
Anonymous
 
 
 
 
Life was meant for good friends and great adventures.
Anonymous
 
 
 
 
A good friend is like a four-leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
Friendship is like a perennial river which flows forever. It may change it’s path but will never ever dry up.
Unknown

Quotes June 25, 2018

Tact is, after all, a kind of mind-reading.
Sarah Orne Jewett,
writer
 
 
 
 
“We all are learning, modifying, or destroying ideas all the time. Rapid destruction of your ideas when the time is right is one of the most valuable qualities you can acquire. You must force yourself to consider arguments on the other side.”
Charlie Munger
 
 
 
 
There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.
Katharine Butler Hathaway
 
 
 
 
It’s amazing what a little encouragement can do.
Winnie Harlow
 
 
 
 
Lighten up, just enjoy life, smile more, laugh more, and don’t get so worked up about things.
Kenneth Branagh
 
 
 
 
“Facing difficulties is inevitable, learning from them is optional”
John Maxwell
 
 
 
 
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
 
 
 
 
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Jim Morrison
 
 
 
 
Friendships are the family we make—not the one we inherit.
Salman
Rushdie
 
 
 
 
Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend
Bill Patterson
 
 
 
 
I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
Walt Whitman
 
 
 
 

I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere that I needed to be.
Douglas Adams,
writer

Quotes June 05, 2018


 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

Quotes December 02, 2017

I seek opportunity — not security.
Dean Alfange,
politician

 
 
 
 
When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.
Diane Von Furstenberg
 
 
 
 
Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
Robert Staughton Lynd

 
 
 
 
The holy passion of Friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
Mark Twain

 
 
 
 
There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.
J.K. Rowling
 
 
 
 
When a woman like that whom I’ve seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man.
Alice Duer Miller
 
 
 
 
Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.
Sarah Dessen
 
 
 
 
I’ve always said that in politics, your enemies can’t hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
Ann Richards
 
 
 
 
It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn’t use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like ‘What about lunch?’
A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

Quotes November 23, 2017

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant.
Socrates
 
 
 
 
Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives.
Alexander Dumas
 
 
 
 
There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.
Linda Grayson
 
 
 
 
I think if I’ve learned anything about friendship, it’s to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don’t walk away, don’t be distracted, don’t be too busy or tired, don’t take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.
Jon Katz
 
 
 
 
Friends are the family you choose.
Jess C. Scott
 
 
 
 
The capacity for friendship is God’s way of apologizing for our families.
Jay McInerney
 
 
 
 
Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life–and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.
Dean Koontz
 
 
 
 
A friendship that can end never really began.
Publilius Syrus
 
 
 
 
Friends give you a shoulder to cry on. But best friends are ready with a shovel to hurt the person that made you cry.
Unknown

 
 
 
 
Do not save your loving speeches
For your friends till they are dead;
Do not write them on their tombstones,
Speak them rather now instead.
Anna Cummins