Quotes About Support

A sympathetic friend can be quite dear as a brother.

Friends are relatives you make for yourself.

A good friend is my nearest relation.

My God, this is a hell of a job. I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends, my goddamn friends. They're the ones that keep me walking the floor nights.

It is not enough to succeed, a friend must fail.

Iron sharpeneth man; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply rhan love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

When we hurt each other we should write it down in the sand, so the winds of forgiveness can make it go away for good. When we help each other we should chisel it in stone, lest we never forget the love of a friend.

Winning has always meant much to me, but winning ftiends has meant the most.

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

A man that hath friends must show himself friendly; and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly.

In time of great anxiety we can draw power from our friends. We should at such times, however, avoid friends who sympathize too deeply, who give us pity rather than strength.

The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.

In times of difficulty friendship is on trial.

A friend is never known till a man has need.

A cheer, then, for the noble breast that fears not danger's post; And like the lifeboat, proves a friend, When friends are wanted most.

There are moments in life when all that we can bear is the sense that our friend is near us; our wounds would wince at consoling words that would reveal the depths of our pain.

It's the friends you can call up at 4:00 a.m. that matter.

Prosperity is not just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower, that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known that immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language holds its peace in impotence.

Man's best support is a very dear friend.

A cheer, then, for the noblest breast That fears not danger's post; And like the lifeboat, proves a friend, When friends are wanted most.

No medicine is more valuable, none more efficacious, none better suited to the cure of all our temporal ills than a friend to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble, and with whom we may share our happiness in time of joy.