Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Hughes

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.

Thomas Huxley

Friendship involves many things but, above all the power of going outside oneself and appreciating what is noble and loving in another.

Thomas F. Wilson

Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Rumi

A generous friend gives life for a friend let's rise above this animalistic behavior and be kind to one another

Rumi

Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses.

Rumi

Stay with friends who support you in these. Talk with them about sacred texts, and how you are doing, and how they are doing, and keep your practices together.

Tom Peters

Quite simply, no matter how hard you try, no matter how "open" you are, you'll end up surrounded by "yes people." It's hard not to believe people who are repeating your own ideas. Resist the temptation.

Toby Keith

There's some nights I can't remember with friends I can't forget.

Steve Lopez

.. a friend is someone who inspires, who challenges, who sends you in search of some truer sense of yourself..

Stephanie Klein

How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em.” ― How Many, How Much by Shel Silverstein “Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.

Viktor E. Frankl

Those who know how close the connection is between the state of mind of a man-his courage and hope, or lack of them-and the state of immunity of his body will understand that the sudden loss of hope and courage can have a deadly effect. The ultimate cause of my friend's death was that the expected liberation did not come and he was severely disappointed.

Vanna Bonta

Success makes enemies of those who would have never been true friends.

Stevie Wonder

Troubled heart you'll know, problems have solutions, trust and I will show.

Stevie Wonder

Sneaking out the back door to hand out with those hoodlum friends of mine.

Steven Moffat

You take this cold, remarkable, difficult, dangerous, borderline psychopath man, and you wonder what might have happened to him had he not met his best friend, a friend that no one would have put him with – this solid, dependable, brave, big-hearted war hero. I think people fall in love, not with Sherlock Holmes or with Dr. Watson, but with their friendship. I think it is the most famous friendship in fiction, without a doubt.

Susan Jeffers

Drink in the beauty of friendship. In this world of constant change, we need the comfort of friendship more than ever before.

Sue Wicks

In preseason camp, there are no friends. when newcomers arrive trying to take not only your job, but maybe your best friend's job, you work together to try to help each other. Everyone is an outsider until you're given a uniform.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

God it's good to be here walkin together, my friend.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

Looking back in front of me, in the mirror a grin. Through eyes of love I see, I'm only looking at a friend.

Steven Tyler

I grew up in New Hampshire. My closest neighbor was a mile away. The deer and the raccoons were my friends. So I would spend time walking through the woods, looking for the most beautiful tropical thing that can survive the winter in the woods in New Hampshire.

Steven Tyler

My feet have been my best friend for the last 40 years. I've just been a dancing fool on stage, and after awhile you just kind of wear them out.

Stevie Nicks

For 70 nights, right across America, I've been getting out there with two ex-lovers and we've been playing songs which are so specific about each of us, you just wouldn't know. We're friends now but we can't forget what happened between us.

Robert Burns

Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to min?

Robert Burns

Nature's law, That man was made to mourn. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! O Death, the poor man's dearest friend, The kindest and the best!

Robert Browning

Let friend trust friends, and love demand love's like.

Robert Browning

Over my head his arm he flung, Against the world.

Robert Browning

What joy is better than news of friends?

Robert Browning

Hand Grasps at hand, eye lights eye in good friendship, And great hearts expand And grow one in the sense of this world's life.

Robert Browning

What a thing friendship is - World without end.

Richard Steele

Mutual good humor is a dress we ought to appear in wherever we meet, and we should make no mention of what concerns ourselves, without it be of matters wherein our friends ought to rejoice.

Richard Stallman

Anything that prevents you from being friendly, a good neighbour, is a terror tactic.

T. E. Lawrence

The desert was held in a crazed communism by which Nature and the elements were for the free use of every known friendly person for his own purposes and no more.

T. Harv Eker

Are you willing to work sixteen hours a day? Rich people are. Are you willing to work seven days a week and five up most of your weekends? Rich people are. Are you willing to sacrifice seeing your family, your friends, and give up your recreations and hobbies? Rich people are. Are you willing to risk all your time, energy and start-up capital with no guarantee of returns? Rich people are.