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Friendly Quote of the Day

Welcome to these Friendly Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.

Have convictions. Be friendly.
Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs.
Work as hard as they do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

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.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Take time to laugh.
It is the music of the soul.
Take time to think.
It is the source of power.
Take time to play.
It is the source of perpetual youth.
Take time to read.
It is the fountain of wisdom.
Take time to pray.
It is the greatest power on Earth.
Take time to love and be loved.
It is a God-given privilege.
Take time to be friendly.
It is the road to happiness.
Take time to give.
It is too short a day to be selfish.
Take time to work.
It is the price of success.
- Anonymous

Like everyone else I feel the need of relations and friendship,
of affection, of friendly intercourse,
and I am not made of stone or iron,
so I cannot miss these things without feeling,
as does any other intelligent man, a void and deep need.
I tell you this to let you know how much good your visit has done me.
- Vincent Van Gogh

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous

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

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

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

A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer

Health is the greatest possession.
Contentment is the greatest treasure.
Confidence is the greatest friend.
Non-being is the greatest joy.
- Lao Tzu

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

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

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

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

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

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

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

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

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

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

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

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman

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

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

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- 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 should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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

The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb

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

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin

The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln

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

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard

I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller

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

Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson

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

In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton

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

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

A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

When it hurts to look back,
and you're scared to look ahead,
you can look beside you
and your best friend will be there.
- Anonymous

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

You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous

Each friend represents a world in us,
a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
- Anais Nin

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

A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell

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

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

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

This communicating of a man's self to his friend
works two contrary effects;
for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
- Francis Bacon

Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend,
but it requires a very fine nature
to sympathize with a friend's success.
- Oscar Wilde

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

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

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

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

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

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

A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering

A single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia

A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- 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

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie