Quotes about Support

A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Friendship involves many things but, above all the power of going outside oneself and appreciating what is noble and loving in another.

Most of us don't need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses. Katherine Mansfield I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

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

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

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

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.