Friendship
206 quotes: 38 by Keith Craft, 168 from other voices.
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- A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.
- A friend is one who joyfully sings with you when you are on the mountaintop, and silently walks beside you through the valley.William Arthur WardCommonly attributed
- A friend once won need never be lost, if we will be only trusty and true ourselves.
- A friend that you have to buy won’t be worth what you pay for him, no matter what that may be.
- A friend to all is a friend to none.
- A friend to everybody is often a friend to nobody, or else in his simplicity he robs his family to help strangers, and becomes brother to a beggar. There is wisdom in generosity as in everything else.
- A friend who offers help without asking for explanations is a treasure beyond price.Robert A. HeinleinSourced
- A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
- A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love; pleasure bestowed upon a grateful mind was never sterile, but generally gratitude begets reward.
- A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.
- A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
- A man's best friends are his ten fingers.
- A man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy.
- A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
- A true friend is forever a friend.George MacDonaldSourced
- A true friend is someone who tells you the truth.
- A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.
- A word from a friend is doubly enjoyable in dark days.
- Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.
- Adversity shows whether we have friends, or only the shadows of friends.
- All friends are not for life, but if you have a true friend, you have a life.Lois WyseCommonly attributed
- All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
- Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature — it requires, in fact, the nature of a true Individualist — to sympathise with a friend's success.Oscar WildeSourced
- [Attributed to a friend's Buddhist teacher] Be yourself–but be all of you.
- Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
- Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
- Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
- Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones.
- 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.
- But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.Thomas JeffersonSourced
- Change should be a friend. It should happen by plan, not by accident.
- Cling tight to the hearts that will not let you fall.
- Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.
- Do not allow grass to grow on the road of friendship.
- 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.Anaïs NinSourced
- Every man rejoices twice when he has a partner of his joy.
- Every man rejoices twice when he has a partner of his joy. A friend shares my sorrow, and makes it but a moiety; but he swells my joy, and makes it double.
- Every one must have felt that a cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around; and most of us can, as we choose, make of this world either a palace or a prison.