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May you find great value in these quotes by Donna Roberts.
A friend knows the song in my heart
and sings it to me when my memory fails.
- Donna Roberts
Related topics: Friendship Relationship
Health is the greatest possession.
Contentment is the greatest treasure.
Confidence is the greatest friend.
Non-being is the greatest joy.
- Lao Tzu
Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou
Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
- William Shakespeare
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
If you wish to succeed in life,
make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor,
caution your elder brother,
and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison
Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him,
for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low,
could still be saved; the bitterest enemy
and also he who was your friend could again be your friend;
love that has grown cold can kindle
- Soren Kierkegaard
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
The price of freedom for a nation is lives and money.
Often, the price of freedom for an individual
is challenging the closed minds of family and friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Go oft to the house of thy friend,
for weeds choke the unused path.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
- Albert Camus
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 he discovers that someone else believes in him
and is willing to trust him with his friendship.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
An insincere and evil friend is more
to be feared than a wild beast;
a wild beast may wound your body,
but an evil friend will wound your mind.
- The Buddha
A sister is a gift to the heart,
a friend to the spirit,
a golden thread to the meaning of life.
- Isadora James
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle
A single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia
When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be
clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber
is clearer from the plain.
- Khalil Gibran
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
A friend or co-worker shares a political,
religious, economic, or social opinion
that is opposite to yours -
does that drive a wedge between your hearts?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Latin Proverb
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb
In everyone's life, at some time,
our inner fire goes out.
It is then burst into flame
by an encounter with another human being.
We should all be thankful for those people
who rekindle the inner spirit.
- Albert Schweitzer
This communicating of a man's self to his friend
works two contrary effects;
for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
- Francis Bacon
Time is my friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous
In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin
A friend is someone who understands my past,
believes in my future,
and accepts me just the way I am.
- Anonymous
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
When it hurts to look back,
and you're scared to look ahead,
you can look beside you
and your best friend will be there.
- Anonymous
An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
So long as we are loved by others,
I would almost say that we are indispensable;
and no man is useless while he has a friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings
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