Top 1200 Qualities Of A Friend Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

A friend who won't respond to what a friend can't ask is like a looking glass in which you cannot see yourself.

A good friend knows all your stories. A best friend helped you write them.

When I lay down the reins of this administration, I want to have one friend left. And that friend is myself.

No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.

My Friend: Art thou abroad on this stormy night on thy journey of love, my friend? The sky groans like one in despair. I have no sleep tonight. Ever and again I open my door and look out on the darkness, my friend! I can see nothing before me. I wonder where lies thy path! By what dim shore of the ink-black river, by what far edge of the frowning forest, through what mazy depth of gloom art thou threading thy course to come to me, my friend?

I suppose no one is as handsome or as beautiful as he or she wishes, or as brilliant in school or as witty in speech or as wealthy as we would like, but in a world of varied talents and fortunes that we can't always command, I think that makes even more attractive the qualities we can command--such qualities as thoughtfulness, patience, a kind word, and true delight in the accomplishment of another. These cost us nothing, and they can mean everything to the one who receives them.

A friend is someone you can trust who isn't just your friend when the cameras are rolling or when you're successful.

Everybody understands friendship, and friendship is different than love - it's a different kind of love. Friendship has more freedom, more latitude. You don't expect your friend to be as you think your friend should be; you expect your friend just to love you as a friend.

I think probably the qualities that I look for in a man are somewhat different than they were before I became a public person, but not that much different. I think that, sort of, the element of trust is certainly much bigger for me, but the other things that - the other qualities, intelligence and kindness and sense of humor, those things.

Sleep is my best friend... A friend that helps you dream, relaxes, recharges, and is there at the end of every day!

A friend whose hopes we cannot satisfy is a friend we would rather have as an enemy.

There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate

A friend who loved perfection would be the perfect friend, did not that love shut his door on me.

The emotional, physical and aesthetic value of a sound is linked not only to the causal explanation we attribute to it but also to its own qualities of timbre and texture, to its own personal vibration. So just as directors and cinematographers (even those who will never make abstract films) have everything to gain by refining their knowledge of visual materials and textures, we can similarly benefit from disciplined attention to the inherent qualities of sounds.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

I am not looking for a friend; if I want a friend I'd buy a dog.

In the past, traditional art was based on making manifest what is enduring in man, like love, jealousy, hatred, envy, and greed... . Today art has to look again at these unchanging qualities, because society is no longer unchanging. It is up to art today to show us what has become of these unchanging qualities in a world which is moving and changing.

Our good nature and endearing qualities will not arouse the answers to our prayers. Rather it is our mischievous, dishonest attributes that provide the master keys to heaven. When we identify and work to transform our self-centered qualities and crooked characteristics, the key turns and the gates unlock. Blessings and good fortune are now free to rain down upon us.

I have a theory that as long as you have one good friend, one real friend, you can get through anything.

if you find one true friend in your life, you're richer than most. If that one true friend is your husband, you're blessed." She paused. "And if that one true friend is your sister, don't feel bad. At least, she can't divorce you.

Human beings are good, they have shadow, every single one of us has redeeming qualities and every single one of us has qualities that people can hold against us. That’s what makes us human.

A friend of mine, a friend of yours. My better half, Richard Stephen Sambora

I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.

Most people don't actually like the press. The friend of my enemy is not necessarily my friend.

Your film is like your children. You might want a child with certain qualities, but you are never going to get the exact specification right. The film has a privilege to live its own life and develop its own character. To suppress this is dangerous. It is an approach that works the other way too: sometimes the footage has amazing qualities that you did not expect.

Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!

Even when a friend does something you do not like, he continues to be your friend.

Once a friend, always a friend. Why should borders stop that?

Reuven listen to me. The Talmud says that a person should do two things for himself. One is to acquire a teacher. Do you remember the other." "Choose a friend," I said. "Yes. You know what a friend is, Reuven? A Greek philosopher said that two people who are true friends are like two bodies with one soul." I nodded. "Reuven, if you can, make Danny Saunders your friend." "I like him a lot, abba." "No. Listen to me. I am not talking about only liking him. I am telling you to make him your friend and to let him make you his friend.

You will never have a better friend than a friend who points you to Christ.

The Republican Party is a friend of Social Security the way Colonel Sanders was a friend of chickens.

It takes effort to be a real friend and to find a true friend.

It is no flattery to give a friend a due character; for commendation is as much the duty of a friend as reprehension.

To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith.

You have to be a friend to yourself. You know, 'cause if you're not a friend to yourself, you're an enemy to yourself and if someone's a friend of everybody they are an enemy to themselves.

I love Caitlin Moran, because I feel like she's a friend, or a friend I want to have at least.

A generous friend gives life for a friend let's rise above this animalistic behavior and be kind to one another

A good friend helps you up when you fall, a best friend laughs in your face and trips you again.

If you are a friend of somebody and that friend is in trouble, you don't just drop them.

With the realization of ones own potential and self-confidence in ones ability, one can build a better world. According to my own experience, self-confidence is very important. That sort of confidence is not a blind one; it is an awareness of ones own potential. On that basis, human beings can transform themselves by increasing the good qualities and reducing the negative qualities.

The qualities that made for success in a fighter-pilot seemed to be just those sturdy qualities that made for success in other professions; observation, initiative, determination, courage, including the courage to run away. In course of time it appeared that men who had a private axe to grind beyond the public axe of the King's enemies were especially successful.

There never has been devised, and there never will be devised, any law which will enable a man to succeed save by the exercise of those qualities which have always been the prerequisites of success - the qualities of hard work, of keen intelligence, of unflinching will.

Vlad made a mental note to amend the friend code: thou shalt not date the girl that thy best friend has a crush on...nor shalt thou try sticking thy best friend in the chest with a sharp hunk of wood.

Never expect a loan to a friend to be paid back if you want to keep that friend.

My friend, the sufi is the friend of the present moment. To say tomorrow is not our way.

If I see something I don't like about a friend, I don't stick with that friend because I don't need them.

Whether a man hides his bad qualities and vices or confesses them openly, his vanity wants to gain an advantage by it in both cases: just note how subtly he distinguishes between those he will hide his bad qualities from and those he will face honestly and candidly.

On my fourth or fifth birthday, a guitar was given to me, and I made a new friend. A very loud friend.

When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost overcome them. We see how they grow as human beings or gain qualities or show great qualities of strength and courage and with them, we grow in some small way.

Allow a friend to believe in a bogus prospectus or a false promise and you cease, after a short while, to be a friend at all.

I believe Prime Minister Blair is a friend, and a friend of Israel.

I am actually on Facebook, but I only have one friend. It's a private account, and I have one friend. Mark Zuckerberg.

To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith

A bosom friend - an intimate friend, you know - a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul.

In four ways ... should one who flatters be understood as a foe in the guise of a friend: He approves of his friend's evil deeds, he disapproves his friend's good deeds, he praises him in his presence, he speaks ill of him in his absence.

I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.

Look as long as you can at the friend you love, no matter whether that friend is moving away from you or coming back toward you.

No enemy is so annoying as one who was a friend, or still is a friend,and there are many more of these than one would suspect.

Enough of passivity and passing time while waiting for the boy friend, the girl friend, the Goddess, or the Revolution.