Quotes About Support

Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.

A man with few friends is only half-developed; there are whole sides of his nature which are locked up and have never been expressed. He cannot unlock them himself, he cannot even discover them; friends alone can stimulate him and open him.

Tis the human touch in the world that counts-the touch of your hand and mine-Which means far more to the sinking heart than shelter or bread or wine For shelter is gone when the night is o'er, and bread lasts only a day But the touch of the hand and the sound of the voice Live on in the soul always.

A true friend is the best possession.

The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.

A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.

Confidence is the foundation of friendship. If we give it, we will receive it.

He does good to himself who does good to his friend.

Friendship is a plant which must be often watered.

Friendship is the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty, esteem, cordiality, sympathy, affection, readiness to aid, to help, to stick, to fight for, if need be. ... Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.

We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.

The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your head.

Love your friend with his fault.

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Treat your fiends as you do your picture, and place them in their best light.

We all need somebody to talk to. It would be good if we talked ... not just pitter-patter, but real talk. We shouldn't be so afraid, because most people really like this contact; that you show you are vulnerable makes them free to be vulnerable.

Forget your woes when you see your friend.

When good cheer is lacking, our friends will be packing.

There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his griefs to his friends, but he grieveth the less.

I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.

The friend of my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

The growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.

1 loathe a friend ... who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief.