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May you find great value in these quotes by Doris Wild Helmering.
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
Related topics: Friendship Relationship
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
Health is the greatest possession.
Contentment is the greatest treasure.
Confidence is the greatest friend.
Non-being is the greatest joy.
- Lao Tzu
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
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 most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
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
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
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 easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
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
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar,
but I cherish the friend who for me
does not consult his calendar.
- Robert Brault
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin
Each friend represents a world in us,
a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
- Anais Nin
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
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
A sister is a gift to the heart,
a friend to the spirit,
a golden thread to the meaning of life.
- Isadora James
He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller
A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The walls we build around us to
keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
- Jim Rohn
A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton
Moreover if your brother shall trespass against you,
go and tell him his fault between you and him alone.
- Matthew 18:15
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Time is my friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
A friend knows the song in my heart
and sings it to me when my memory fails.
- Donna Roberts
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell
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
We can never replace a friend.
When a man is fortunate enough to have several,
he finds they are all different.
No one has a double in friendship.
- Johann Schiller
A best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous
Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend,
but it requires a very fine nature
to sympathize with a friend's success.
- Oscar Wilde
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Latin Proverb
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard
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
A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
A single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia
Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb
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