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Get Inspired for Success Strategy 4: Build Mutually Supportive Relationships

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.  

- Henry Brooks Adams  

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.  

- Joseph Addison  

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.  

- Joseph Addison  

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.  

- Amos Bronson Alcott  

A faithful friend is the medicine of life.  

- Apocrypha  

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.  

- Saint Thomas Aquinas  

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.  

- Pietro Aretino  

To the query, What is a friend?, his reply was, A single soul dwelling in two bodies.  

- Aristotle  

Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.  

- Aristotle  

Without friends no one would choose to live.  

- Aristotle  

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief, to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.  

- Aristotle  

Friendship is essentially a partnership.  

- Aristotle  

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.  

- Aristotle  

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend, on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.  

- Saint Augustine  

Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.  

- Richard Bach  

Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?  

- Richard Bach  

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...  

- Richard Bach  

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.  

- Francis Bacon  

The best time to make friends is before you need them.  

- Ethel Barrymore  

Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.  

- Henry Ward Beecher  

Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.  

- Ludwig Van Beethoven  

A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.  

- Bible  

A friend loveth at all times.  

- Proverbs 17:17, Bible  

A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses.  

- Proverbs 27:19, Bible  

Faithful are the wounds of a friend.  

- Bible  

Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.  

- Bible  

Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin.  

- Proverbs 18:24, Bible  

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.  

- James Boswell  

Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.  

- Randolph S Bourne  

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.  

- Christian Nevell Bovee  

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.  

- Kenneth Branagh  

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  

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.  

- Charlotte Bronte  

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.  

- Doctor Joyce Brothers  

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil, but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often, just to save it from drying out completely.  

- Pam Brown  

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.  

- Jean De La Bruyre  

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.  

- Buddha  

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.  

- Buddha  

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.  

- Eustace Budgell  

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.  

- Edward G Bulwer-Lytton  

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces, but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.  

- Sir Richard Burton  

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.  

- Samuel Butler  

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.  

- James F Byrnes  

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow, Don't walk behind me, I may not lead, Walk beside me, and just be my friend.  

- Albert Camus  

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.  

- Dale Carnegie  

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family, but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.  

- Willa Cather  

A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.  

- Miguel De Cervantes  

The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.  

- Oswald Chambers  

Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.  

- Jennie Jerome Churchill  

Life is nothing without friendship.  

- Marcus T Cicero  

Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.  

- Marcus T Cicero  

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.  

- Marcus T Cicero  

A friend is, as it were, a second self.  

- Marcus T Cicero  

Friends are proved by adversity.  

- Marcus T Cicero  

Friendship is a sheltering tree.  

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge  

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.  

- Charles Caleb Colton  

True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.  

- Charles Caleb Colton  

A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.  

- Sheryl Condie  

A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.  

- Dinah Maria Mulock Craik  

A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.  

- Frank Crane  

A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.  

- Frank Crane  

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.  

- Jerome Cummings  

Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.  

- Anna Cummins  

Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow, we will stand by each other, however it blow.  

- Simon Dach  

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend, or a meaningful day.  

- Dalai Lama  

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.  

- Charles Darwin  

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.  

- Jacques Delille  

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.  

- Dhammapada  

To find a friend one must close one eye, to keep him, two.  

- Norman Douglas  

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!  

- Charles Alexander Eastman  

Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.  

- George Ebers  

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.  

- George Eliot  

I didn't find my friends, the good Lord gave them to me.  

- Ralph Waldo Emerson  

The only way to have a friend is to be one.  

- Ralph Waldo Emerson  

The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship, it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.  

- Ralph Waldo Emerson  

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.  

- Ralph Waldo Emerson  

Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.  

- Ralph Waldo Emerson  

A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.  

- Ralph Waldo Emerson  

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.  

- Ralph Waldo Emerson  

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud.  

- Ralph Waldo Emerson  

Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.  

- Epicurus  

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.  

- Euripides  

Friends show their love in times of trouble...  

- Euripides  

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.  

- Euripides  

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

- Henry Ford  

Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.  

- Saint Francis De Sales  

Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.  

- S M Frazier  

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.  

- Thomas Fuller  

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.  

- Thomas Fuller  

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.  

- I Gabirol  

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.  

- Mahatma Gandhi  

The good man is the friend of all living things.  

- Mahatma Gandhi  

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.  

- David Tyson Gentry  

Let your best be for your friend.  

- Kahlil Gibran  

Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.  

- Kahlil Gibran  

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.  

- Kahlil Gibran  

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.  

- Kahlil Gibran  

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.  

- Kahlil Gibran  

Your friend is your needs answered.  

- Kahlil Gibran  

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

- Arnold H Glasgow  

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.  

- Baltasar Gracian  

The friend in 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.  

- Ulysses S Grant  

There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment.  

- Andrew M Greeley  

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.  

- Robert Hall  

Friendship needs no words.  

- Dag Hammarskjold  

There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.  

- Katherine Hathaway  

Friends are the sunshine of life.  

- John Hay  

Friendship is a horizon, which expands whenever we approach it.  

- E R Hazlip  

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.  

- William Hazlitt  

There is no friend as loyal as a book  

- Ernest Hemingway  

Never deceive a friend.  

- Hipparchus  

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.  

- Homer  

Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired.  

- Homer  

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.  

- Edgar Watson Howe  

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.  

- Tehyi Hsieh  

Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.  

- Elbert Hubbard  

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.  

- Hubert H Humphrey  

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.  

- Lee Iacocca  

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.  

- Thomas Jefferson  

When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.  

- Earvin Magic Johnson  

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.  

- Samuel Johnson  

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.  

- Samuel Johnson  

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone, one should keep his friendships in constant repair.  

- Samuel Johnson  

He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.  

- Joseph Joubert  

Plant a seed of friendship, reap a bouquet of happiness.  

- Lois L Kaufman  

Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.  

- Thomas A Kempis  

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.  

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld  

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.  

- Robert E Lee  

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.  

- John Leonard  

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value, rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.  

- C S Lewis  

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?  

- Abraham Lincoln  

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.  

- Martin Luther  

I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses  

- Katherine Mansfield  

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.  

- Mencius  

Friends are like melons, shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.  

- Claude Mermet  

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.  

- Wilson Mizner  

We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out, they will come in.  

- Jess Moody  

In a friend you find a second self.  

- Isabelle Norton  

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.  

- Notebook  

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.  

- Samuel Paterson  

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

- William Penn  

There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.  

- William Penn  

Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.  

- Ralph B Perry  

You can always tell a real friend, when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.  

- Laurence J Peter  

Ones oldest friend is the best.  

- Titus Maccius Plautus  

Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.  

- Proverb  

It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.  

- Proverb  

The time to make friends is before you need them.  

- Proverb  

A friend is known when needed.  

- Arabian Proverb  

A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world, but very few real friends.  

- Chinese Proverb  

With true friends, even water drunk together is sweet enough.  

- Chinese Proverb  

Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.  

- Czech Proverb  

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.  

- Danish Proverb  

The road to a friend's house is never long.  

- Danish Proverb  

Your friendship is your needs answered.  

- Danish Proverb  

Who ceases to be a friend never was one.  

- Greek Proverb  

The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.  

- Jewish Proverb  

Hold a true friend with both your hands.  

- Nigerian Proverb  

To keep a new friend, never break with the old.  

- Russian Proverb  

Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.  

- Russian Proverb  

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.  

- Sicilian Proverb  

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.  

- Turkish Proverb  

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.  

- Pythagoras  

Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.  

- G Randolf  

I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.  

- Edward Vernon Rickenbacker  

Friendship with oneself is all, important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.  

- Eleanor Roosevelt  

How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.  

- William E. Rothschild  

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.  

- Sallust  

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another, people are friends in spots.  

- George Santayana  

Good friends are good for your health.  

- Irwin Sarason  

One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.  

- Hasidic Saying  

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.  

- Jewish Saying  

Friendship always benefits, love sometimes injures.  

- Seneca  

Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.  

- Seneca  

Words are easy, like the wind, Faithful friends are hard to find.  

- William Shakespeare  

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.  

- William Shakespeare  

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.  

- Socrates  

No man is useless while he has a friend.  

- Robert Louis Stevenson  

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable, and no man is useless while he has a friend.  

- Robert Louis Stevenson  

A friend is a present you give to yourself.  

- Robert Louis Stevenson  

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.  

- Anne Sophie Swetchine  

Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly.  

- Publilius Syrus  

We die as often as we lose a friend.  

- Publilius Syrus  

Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth which goes with him only while good fortune lasts. Second, his relatives, they go only as far as the grave, leave him there. The third friend, his good deeds, go with him beyond the grave.  

- The Talmud  

It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.  

- Mary Dixon Thayer  

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.  

- Henry David Thoreau  

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.  

- Henry David Thoreau  

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.  

- Henry David Thoreau  

In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.  

- Irish Toast  

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.  

- Mark Twain  

Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver, the latter gold.  

- Source Unknown  

Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.  

- Source Unknown  

Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice.''  

- Source Unknown  

It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.  

- Source Unknown  

The best vitamin for making friends, Be one.  

- Source Unknown  

Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.  

- Source Unknown  

Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.  

- Source Unknown  

May I always be worth of my friends.  

- Source Unknown  

Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.  

- Source Unknown  

The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.  

- Source Unknown  

The gift of friendship, a willingness to listen, a pair of helping hands, a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.  

- Source Unknown  

The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words, hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.  

- Source Unknown  

There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.  

- Source Unknown  

To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.  

- Source Unknown  

When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near  

- Source Unknown  

He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.  

- Source Unknown  

Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.  

- Source Unknown  

A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.  

- Source Unknown  

Friendship is love with understanding.  

- Source Unknown  

A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.  

- Source Unknown  

A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.  

- Source Unknown  

A friend walks in when everyone else walks out  

- Source Unknown  

Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.  

- Source Unknown  

A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.  

- Source Unknown  

Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.  

- Source Unknown  

And the joy of it all, when we count it all up, is found in the making of friends.  

- Source Unknown  

Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.  

- Source Unknown  

A man is known by the company he avoids.  

- Source Unknown  

Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements  

- Source Unknown  

Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.  

- Source Unknown  

Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.  

- Source Unknown  

Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding.  

- Source Unknown  

Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.  

- Source Unknown  

Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.  

- Source Unknown  

Friend, One who knows all about you and likes you just the same  

- Source Unknown  

Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.  

- Source Unknown  

Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.  

- Source Unknown  

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.  

- Izaak Walton  

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.  

- George Washington  

True 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  

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.  

- Simone Weil  

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.  

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox  

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.  

- Woodrow T Wilson  

You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.  

- Woodrow T Wilson  

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.  

- Oprah Winfrey  

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first, when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.  

- Paramahansa Yogananda  

Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives, and remembering what one receives.  

- Dumas The Younger  

If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.  

- Zig Ziglar  

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