Quotes About Friendship

Competition is easier to accept if you realize it is not an act of oppression or abrasion. ... I've worked with my best friends in direct competition.

You are no more exempt from time's inexorable passing than Macbeth. Whether time is your friend or foe depends on how you use it

No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it.

Friendship, which is of its nature a delicate thing, fastidious, slow of growth, is easily checked, will hesitate, demur, recoil where love, good old blustering love, bowls ahead and blunders through every obstacle.

The dog is the god of frolic.

Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his political life.

Any man will usually get from other men just what he is expecting of them. If he is looking for friendship he will likely receive it. If his attitude is that of indifference, it will beget indifference. And if a man is looking for a fight, he will in all likelihood be accommodated in that.

Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate in their . . . relations.

My helpless friend, your helplessness is the most powerful plea which rises up to the tender father-heart of God. You think that everything is closed to you because you cannot pray. My friend, your helplessness is the very essence of prayer.

God bless all those that I love; God bless all those that love me; God bless all those that love those that I love and all those that love those that love me.

What a friend we have in Jesus, All our sins and griefs to bear! What a privilege to carry Everything to God in Prayer! Have we trials and temptations? Is there trouble anywhere? We should never be discouraged, Take it to the Lord in prayer. Are we weak and heavy laden, Cumbered with a load of care? Precious Savior, still our refuge, Take it to the Lord in prayer. O what peace we often forfeit, O what needless pain we bear, All because we do not carry Everything to God in prayer!

Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies.

No, Groucho is not my real name. I am breaking it in for a friend.

Judas needed the money for a sick friend.

Friendships aren't perfect, and yet they are very precious. For me, not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.

If you would wish another to keep your secret, first keep it yourself.

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.

If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.

I praise the Frenchman; his remark was shrewd, - "How sweet, how passing sweet is solitude." But grant me still a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper - Solitude is sweet.

He rose without a friend, and sat down without an enemy.

Behind every tennis player there is another tennis player.

The ability to form friendships, to make people believe in you and trust you is one of the few absolutely fundamental qualities of success. Selling, buying, negotiating are so much smoother and easier when the parties enjoy each other's confidence. The young man who can make friends quickly will find that he will glide, instead of stumble, through life.

Success ... depends on your ability to make and keep friends.

A sense of humor is the ability to laugh at your own jokes when your friends tell them.