Quotes About Support

Good friends have a way of bringing out the best in you By their caring and the interest that they take in all you do

Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things

It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment

Friendship is a sheltering tree

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

The light of friendship is like the light of phosphorus, even plainest when all around is dark.

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

Be a friend to thyself and others will too

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.

I have no trouble with my enemies. But my goddam friends,...they are the ones that keep me walking the floor nights

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

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

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 faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found such an one hath found a treasure

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You, too? Thought I was the only one

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of the world, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

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 the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.