Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eleanor Roosevelt

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart

Elbert Hubbard

If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Elbert Hubbard

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

Elbert Hubbard

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Friendship with oneself is all important.

School's out, Memories past, Don't ever doubt, Our friendship will last.

This gift represents the true friendship that the people of Kuwait feel for the people of the United States.

John Flaherty

It's a story about friendship and making new friends.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Friends are necessary to a happy life. When friendship deserts us, we are as helpless as a ship left by the tide high upon the shore. When friendship returns to us, it's as though the tide came back, giving us buoyancy and freedom.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.

Gordon B. Hinckley

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.

Gordon B. Hinckley

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.

Gladys Taber

Perhaps what makes friendship and love exciting is the continuing discovery of another personality.

Herman Melville

In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.

Henry David Thoreau

I had but three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship; three for society. When visitors came in larger and unexpected numbers there was but the third chair for them all, but they generally economized the room by standing up.

Henry David Thoreau

We should never stand upon ceremony with sincerity. We should never cheat and insult and banish one another by our meanness, if there were present the kernel of worth and friendliness. We should not meet thus in haste.

Henry David Thoreau

I often accuse my finest acquaintances of an immense frivolity; for, while there are manners and compliments we do not meet, we donot teach one another the lessons of honesty and sincerity that the brutes do, or of steadiness and solidity that the rocks do. The fault is commonly mutual; however, for we do not habitually demand any more of each other.

Henry David Thoreau

I think that Nature meant kindly when she made our brothers few. However, my voice is still for peace.

Henry David Thoreau

The richest gifts we can bestow are the least marketable. We hate the kindness which we understand.

Henry David Thoreau

A noble person confers no such gift as his whole confidence: none so exalts the giver and the receiver; it produces the truest gratitude. Perhaps it is only essential to friendship that some vital trust should have been reposed by the one in the other. I feel addressed and probed even to the remotest parts of my being when one nobly shows, even in trivial things, an implicit faith in me.... A threat or a curse may be forgotten, but this mild trust translates me.

Henry David Thoreau

In love and friendship the imagination is as much exercised as the heart; and if either is outraged the other will be estranged. It is commonly the imagination which is wounded first, rather than the heart,--it is so much the more sensitive.

Henry David Thoreau

We must love our friend so much that she shall be associated with our purest and holiest thoughts alone.

Henry David Thoreau

A man's social and spiritual discipline must answer to his corporeal. He must lean on a friend who has a hard breast, as he wouldlie on a hard bed. He must drink cold water for his only beverage. So he must not hear sweetened and colored words, but pure and refreshing truths. He must daily bathe in truth cold as spring water, not warmed by the sympathy of friends.

Henry David Thoreau

I have seen some who did not know when to turn aside their eyes in meeting yours. A truly confident and magnanimous spirit is wiser than to contend for the mastery in such encounters. Serpents alone conquer by the steadiness of their gaze. My friend looks me in the face and sees me, that is all.

Henry David Thoreau

Friendship is evanescent in every man's experience, and remembered like heat lightning in past summers.

Henry David Thoreau

Friendship takes place between those who have an affinity for one another, and is a perfectly natural and inevitable result. No professions nor advances will avail.... It is a drama in which the parties have no part to act.

Henry David Thoreau

Our actual Friends are but distant relations of those to whom we are pledged.

Henry David Thoreau

Nothing but great antiquity can make graveyards interesting to me. I have no friends there.

Henry David Thoreau

For a companion, I require one who will make an equal demand on me with my own genius. Such a one will always be rightly tolerant.It is suicide, and corrupts good manners, to welcome any less than this. I value and trust those who love and praise my aspiration rather than my performance. If you would not stop to look at me, but look whither I am looking, and farther, then my education could not dispense with your company.

Henry David Thoreau

There is on the earth no institution which Friendship has established; it is not taught by any religion; no scripture contains itsmaxims. It has no temple, nor even a solitary column. There goes a rumor that the earth is inhabited, but the shipwrecked mariner has not seen a footprint on the shore. The hunter has found only fragments of pottery and the monuments of inhabitants.

Henry David Thoreau

It is impossible to say all that we think, even to our truest Friend. We may bid him farewell forever sooner than complain, for our complaint is too well grounded to be uttered.

Henry David Thoreau

We never exchange more than three words with a Friend in our lives on that level to which our thoughts and feelings almost habitually rise.