Quotes About Support

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.

Most people carrying heavy loads begin to doubt themselves & their own worth. We lighten their loads as we are patient with their weaknesses & celebrate whatever goodness we can see in them. The Lord does that.

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world.

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?

A Friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us.

But never mind; faint heart never won true Friend. O Friend, may it come to pass, once, that when you are my Friend I may be yours.

Those who, while they disapprove of the character and measures of a government, yield to it their allegiance and support are undoubtedly its most conscientious supporters, and so frequently the most serious obstacles to reform.

Les gens qui, tout en désapprouvant le caractère et les mesures d'un gouvernement, lui concèdent leur obéissance et leur appui sont sans conteste ses partisans les plus zélés et par là, fréquemment, l'obstacle le plus sérieux aux réformes.

Virtue does not remain as an abandoned orphan; it must of necessity have neighbors.

I value and trust those w^ho love and praise my aspiration rather than my performance.

Le mieux que je puisse faire pour mon ami est d'être son ami.

It is difficult to being without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellow-men to have an interest in your enterprise.

You will find, if you think for a moment, that the people who influence you are the people who believe in you.

If we try to influence or elevate others, we shall soon see that success is in proportion to their belief of our belief in them. Greatest Thing in the World.

You will find . . . that the people who influence you are people who believe in you.

attempting to moderate the grief of her friend by philosophical observations on the many disappointments to which human life is daily subject

I don't care about anything but you, and that's enough for the present. I want you to be happy--not to think of anything sad; only to feel that I'm near you and I love you. Why should there be pain? In such hours as this what have we to do with pain? That's not the deepest thing; there's something deeper.

there was always a sort of tacit understanding among women, born of the solidarity of the sex, that they should discover or invent lovers for each other...

one should try to be one's own best friend and to give one's self, in this manner, distinguished company.

I'll watch with you.

Not to give away the woman one loved, but to back her up in her mistakes -- once they had gone a certain length -- that was perhaps chief among the inevitabilities of the abjection of love.

Life might prove difficult—was evidently going to; but meanwhile they had each other, and that was everything.