logo

Quotes About Trust

Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!
~ George Eliot
Life is nothing without friendship.
~ Unknown
Your friendship is your needs answered.
~ Danish Proverb
There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.
~ William Penn
Friendships begin with liking or gratitude roots that can be pulled up.
~ George Eliot
Friendship needs no words...
~ Dag Hammarskjold
Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.
~ Unknown
Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.
~ Unknown
A friend is known when needed.
~ Unknown
A friend in power is a friend lost.
~ Henry Brooks Adams
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.
~ Nelson Boswell
Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.
~ Ludwig van Beethoven
Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.
~ Thomas Fuller
Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
If your friend is already dead, and being eaten by vultures, I think it's okay to feed some bits of your friend to one of the vultures, to teach him to do some tricks. But ONLY if you're serious about adopting the vulture. - Deep Thoughts (Saturday Night Live)
~ Unknown
Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode: it is rather a life.
~ David Grayson
A friend is someone who reaches for your hand... but touches your heart.
~ Anonymous
Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.
~ Unknown
Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.
~ Euripides
No words are necessary between two loving hearts
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Who ceases to be a friend never was one.
~ Greek proverb
Let your best be for your friend...
~ Kahlil Gibran