Quotes About Support

Know before whom thou stands. Understand your friends for who they are, not who you wish them to be. Accept them for their flaws as well as their attributes. Turn to them for their strengths, what good stuff they can bring to your life, and forget about the rest. To ask for more only sets you up for failure.

It's a blessing when the person you love shows the kind of instincts you'd hoped they'd have when push comes to shove. Illness is the great equalizer. It doesn't matter who you are, rich or poor, young or old, fat or thin, sick is sick. And if you're blessed, those around you will rise to the occasion in your hour of need.

Si en aquel momento hubiese tenido a una mujer que me hubiera amado, ¿hasta dónde hubiese podido llegar Uno solo no puede conservar la fe en sí mismo. Es necesario que poseamos un testigo de nuestra fuerza; alguien que señale los golpes, que lleve la cuenta de los puntos, que nos corone en el día de la recompensa.

because those are the two things you want to do most when you love somebody: to save them (sometimes from themselves) and to be near them always.

Listening is loving

The chain of events begins with the denial of full scale employment and advancement to Black males so that they cannot adequately support themselves, their wives and their children.

Popular spite attributes a proverb to the medical profession: "Take while the patient is in pain.

My dear fellow, money is no substitute for the right kind of friend . . .

Losers [...] gain psychic satisfaction from belonging to a winning cause.

I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can't.

A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself

aceptar con buen ánimo el rechazo, ya que no todo el mundo te comprenderá; • buscar personas que crean en ti; • aprovechar las oportunidades que se presenten.

ayuda de los demás es necesaria para llevar a cabo todos los grandes proyectos.

However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them.

If you give people a chance, they shine.

No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.

Churchgoers are like coals in a fire. When they cling together, they keep the flame aglow; when they separate, they die out.

A suffering person does not need a lecture—he needs a listener.

When Jesus needed friends, they left Him.

What a comfort it was for me to know that no matter where I was in the world, my mother was praying for me.

We . . . do not cease to pray for you. COLOSSIANS 1:9

The Bible teaches us to be more concerned about the needs and feelings of others than our own. We are to encourage and build self-confidence in our loved ones, friends, and associates.

If there is something we need more than anything else during grief, it is a friend who stands with us, who doesn't leave us. Jesus is that friend.

All around you are people whose lives are filled with trouble and sorrow, and they need your compassion and encouragement.