Quotes About Support

Marriage was man and wife, side by side as they were now, sharing life's adventures and battling its challenges...together.  It was an alliance forged of the finest steel, tempered in the fires of adversity, and thus blessed by unrivaled strength.

stubborn giant beside her to lend a hand.  Loyalty was a fine

From people of goodwill, I get inspiration, from my detractors, I derive aspiration.

The aim is not to be better than everyone else, it is to make everyone else better.

The nail is a friend of wood even if the nail makes wood suffer. Because the nail gives wood purpose.

Those in the direst need of the medication resist it the most.

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.

An absent friend gives us friendly company when we are well assured of his happiness.

The attentive, caring, and wise voice ofa supportive adult gets internalized and becomes part of the youth's own voice. —National Research Council

Blood may be thicker than water, but love is thicker than anything.

Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.

Remember, the burden of sorrow is doubled when it is borne alone.

Remember yourself as a child? No one knows you better than you do. Be kind. Be your best friend.

True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the well-being of one's companion.

Imagine how our own families, let alone the world, would change if we vowed to keep faith with one another, strengthen one another, look for and accentuate the virtues in one another, and speak graciously concerning one another. Imagine the cumulative effect if we treated each other with respect and acceptance, if we willingly provided support. Such interactions practiced on a small scale would surely have a rippling effect throughout our homes and communities and, eventually, society at large.

Marriage in its truest sense, is a partnership of equals, with neither exercising dominion over the other, but, rather, with each encouraging and assisting the other in whatever responsibilities and aspirations he or she might have.

In our old age my beloved companion said to me quietly one evening, "You have always given me wings to fly, and I have loved you for it.

The Lord would want you to be successful. He would. You are His sons and His daughters. He has the same kind of love and ambition for you that your earthly parents have. They want you to do well and you can do it.

It is important to know when you feel down that many others do also and that their circumstances are generally much worse than yours. And it's important to know that when one of us is down it becomes the obligation of his friends to give him a lift. I hope that each of us will cultivate a sensitivity toward the feelings of others and when encouragement is needed make an effort to extend it. Be a friend and you will have a friend. God be thanked for wonderful friends.

The trick, my brethren and sisters is to enjoy the journey, traveling hand in hand, in sunshine and storm, as companions who love one another.

Work will cure your grief. Serve others.

Never lose faith in your opportunity to lift those who are in need, to give strength to those who are weak, to give encouragement to those who falter by the way.

We cannot expect to lift others unless we stand on higher ground ourselves.

Be careful of your friends. They can make you or break you. Be generous in helping the unfortunate and those in distress. But bind to you friends of your own kind. Friends who will encourage you. Stand with you. Live as you desire to live; who will enjoy the same kind of entertainment; and who will resist the evil that you determine to resist.