Friendship Sayings Friendship Words
Friendship Sayings Friendship Words
- “A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.” – William Arthur Ward
- “A good friend is a connection to life – a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.” – Lois Wyse
- “The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.” – Katherine Mansfield
- “Friends and good manners will carry you where money won’t go.” – Margaret Walker
- “The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing… not healing, not curing… that is a friend who cares.” – Henri Nouwen
- “Friends are the sunshine of life.” – John Hay
- “Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.” – John Evelyn
- “In the spiritual life nowhere do our ideals meet the actual more truly than in how we relate to each other, in how we make, sustain and are friends.” – James Ishmael Ford
- “There is nothing we like to see so much as the gleam of pleasure in a person’s eye when he feels that we have sympathized with him, understood him. At these moments something fine and spiritual passes between two friends. These are the moments worth living.” – Don Marquis
- “Friendship is a sheltering tree.” – Samuel Coleridge
- “If I had to sum up Friendship in one word, it would be Comfort.” – Terri Guillemets
- “It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.”- Henry Ward Beecher
- “I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let’s face it, friends make life a lot more fun.” – Charles R. Swindoll
- “The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man’s success in life.” – Edward Everett Hale
- “Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends.” – Cindy Lew
- “Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.” – Samuel Paterson
- “A friend is a present you give yourself.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
- “There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.” – Hillaire Belloc
“My friends are my estate.” – Emily Dickinson
- “It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.” – Epicurus
- “Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.” – George Washington
- “Adversity does teach who your real friends are.” – Lois McMaster Bujold
- “The only way to have a friend is to be one.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Friendship is not diminished by distance or time, by imprisonment or war, by suffering or silence. It is in these things that it roots most deeply.” – Pam Brown
- “A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.” – Bernard Meltzer
- “Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.” – Cicero
- “A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.” – Leo Buscaglia
- “A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.” – Grace Pulpit
- “The best time to make friends is before you need them.” – Ethel Barrymore
- “Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.” – Author Unknown
