Explore Quotes on Friendship

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

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

Treat other animals as friends and they become friends. Treat other animals as family and they become family. Give other animals your love and they will love you in return.

The waste basket is the writer's best friend.

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

We must be our own before we can be another's.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

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

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

I go down the street, I say hello to everybody, a stranger or otherwise. I know that they do not know me, but I like to say hello and I think they appreciate it. I notice their faces light up with a smile and I believe that if all the people in our great city...would do that, the whole world would begin to say it is the "Friendly City." You can do a tremendous thing here. We get so absorbed, we do not always speak to our friends. Speak to them, even strangers, you are not going to give offense.

Choose your friends carefully. It is they who will lead you in one direction or the other. Everybody wants friends. Everybody needs friends. No one wishes to be without them. But never lose sight of the fact that it is your friends who will lead you along the paths that you will follow.

While you should be friendly with all people, select with great care those whom you wish to have close to you. They will be your safeguards in situations where you may vacillate between choices, and you in turn may save them.

I told them I was but a man, and they must not expect me to be perfect; if they expected perfection from me, I should expect it from them; but if they would bear with my infirmities and the infirmities of the brethren, I would likewise bear with their infirmities.

Always keep good company. Never waste an hour with anyone who doesn't lift you up and encourage you.

Have good associates or don't associate at all. Be careful in the selection of your friends. If in the presence of certain persons you are lifted to nobler heights, you are in good company. But if your friends or associates encourage base thoughts, then you had best leave them.

The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.

Impoverished is the life fenced in with few friends