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A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
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

Friend Quotes and Sayings

The proper office of a friend is to side with you
when you are in the wrong.
Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.
- Mark Twain

I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson

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 feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus

The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou

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

A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard

Do not use a hatchet to remove
a fly from your friend's forehead.
- Chinese Proverb

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes
when they're not so good,
and sympathizes with your problems
when they're not so bad.
- Arnold H. Glasgow

The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez

My wife ran off with my best friend, and I sure do miss him.
- Anonymous

I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono

The walls we build around us to
keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
- Jim Rohn

A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde

The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau

When one gets angry, it is always angry AT someone -
perhaps a friend or spouse, perhaps a stranger,
perhaps the nameless "they" - "those people at the bank wronged me,"
perhaps God, or perhaps oneself.
In any case, when one gets angry,
they want to find someone to be "responsible" for what happened.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend -
and he's a priest.
- Erma Bombeck

I never found a companion that was
so companionable as solitude.
- Henry David Thoreau

A friend is someone who will bail you out of jail.
A best friend is the one sitting next
to you saying "boy was that fun."
- The Maugles

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 good man is the friend of all living things.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
- Erma Bombeck

Barf: I'm a mog: half man, half dog. I'm my own best friend!
- the movie Spaceballs (1987)

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley

The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous

The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson

I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
- Emo Phillips

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
- Groucho Marx

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.
- Harry S. Truman

The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung

A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford

A friend knows the song in my heart
and sings it to me when my memory fails.
- Donna Roberts

A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell

A best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous

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

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson

Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn

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

What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane

A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals

Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
- William Shakespeare

An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides

A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle

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

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

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship,
we must love our friend for their sakes
rather than for our own.
- Charlotte Bronte

The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb

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

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

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

Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb

A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve

Well, it seems to me that the best relationships -
the ones that last -
are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship.
You know, one day you look at the person
and you see something more than you did the night before.
Like a switch has been flicked somewhere.
And the person who was just a friend is...
suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.
- Dana Scully

Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller

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

Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South

Go oft to the house of thy friend,
for weeds choke the unused path.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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 is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln

A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow

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