Top 100 Be A Friend Quotes
#1. The biggest single problem of American parents today is the foolish idea that you just have to be a friend to your children. Kids need parents, not just another pal. This means being able and willing to say no, to challenge faulty thinking, and to expect accountability.
Steve Biddulph
#2. You make that climb, take it step by step and hopefully the view is great. I try to be a friend for Miley. I know that's not everyone's parenting style. But I try to be a friend, a partner as a singer, actor, songwriter and let her be a teenage girl and do her thing.
Billy Ray Cyrus
#3. This Christmas ...
Say a prayer for those in need. Be a friend to those in despair. Give all ... the gift of peace!
Timothy Pina
#4. Oh, she just happened to be a friend of the producer's. Or, oh, they've been trying to get her from the beginning and she just had a spot open up. There are always little loopholes, so I don't take anything personally anymore.
Ellen Muth
#5. One of the greatest acts of service you can do is to find someone who is secretly lonely and be a friend to them, if only for a day.
Dan Pearce
#6. I was just trying to be a friend,' I said. 'But you weren't, Charlie. At those times, you weren't being his friend at all. Because you weren't honest with him.
Stephen Chbosky
#7. I am very sensitive to all form of music, painting, sculpting, dancing, and I love cinema also. For example if I look at the work of the dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov, who happens to be a friend of mine, everything he does is inspiring to me.
Philippe Petit
#8. Whenever people say they didn't like the main character of a book, they mean they didn't like the book. The main character has to be a friend? I don't get that.
Melissa Bank
#9. To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal
Henry A. Kissinger
#10. America glories in its tradition of the self-made individual. Political candidates compete to be a friend to entrepreneurs, and policymakers, imagining the next Microsoft or Google, design laws to back the innovator in the garage.
Mark McKinnon
#11. A man that knows how to be a friend will always find a friend when he needs one.
David Mark Brown
#12. To be a friend takes time, and time is what nobody has. Therefore, real friends are rare.
Suzanne Massie
#13. For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.
Sophocles
#14. Change should be a friend. It should happen by plan, not by accident.
Phil Crosby
#15. Hillary Clinton at the end of the day will be a friend of Wall Street.
Hillary Clinton
#16. What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.
Seneca.
#17. To be a friend of God, you must care about all the people around you whom God cares about. Friends of God tell their friends about God.
Rick Warren
#18. Love without humility results in the inclination to act as everyone's parent, humility without love results in the need to be everyone's child, and love with humility results in the desire to be a friend.
Criss Jami
#19. To be a friend of the earth, you have to be an enemy of man.
T.C. Boyle
#20. The White House should always be a friend to American freedom.
Nancy Pearcey
#21. Your path is not my path. Should we meet at the crossroads and ye be a friend, tarry a while, drink some wine and let us laugh for a while. If ye be foe, continue on your merry way and may our paths never cross again.
Virginia Alison
#22. If I looked into your face / expecting a word or a laugh on the old conditions, / it would not be a friend who met my eye
Philip Larkin
#23. Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.
Seneca The Younger
#24. To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith.
Samuel Rutherford
#25. I considered Nat King Cole to be a friend and, in many ways, a mentor. He always had words of profound advice.
Diahann Carroll
#26. You don't always need to talk with experts; sometimes the consumer, who just might be a friend or acquaintance, is your best consultant.
Blake Mycoskie
#29. To be a friend of the weak-that is the artist's point of departure as well as his ultimate goal.
Osamu Dazai
#30. I wonder if pain, the kind that doesn't just happen when your cat is killed, or when your aunt dies, but the kind that you have to live with... can it ever be a friend?
Jennifer Lynch
#31. There can't be a quarrel without two parties, and I won't be one. I will be a friend to you in spite of you. So now you know what you've got to expect
Charles Dickens
#32. Life is an opportunity to find a friend and to be a friend.
Debasish Mridha
#33. I want to be magic. I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile. I want to be a friend of elves and live in a tree. Or under a hill. I want to marry a moonbeam and hear the stars sing. I don't want to pretend at magic anymore. I want to be magic.
Charles De Lint
#34. (A) friend doesn't belong to anyone. Friendship is not something you own. Friendship is something you share. To have a friend, you must be a friend. There is no other way.
Stephen Cosgrove
#35. To be a friend means that they are always there, for the good or the bad.
Rafael Nadal
#37. Can't I another's face commend, Or to her virtues be a friend, But instantly your forehead louers, As if her merit lessen'd yours?
George Edward Moore
#38. A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
Lord Byron
#39. It's the oldest, corniest piece of advice in the world but it still works. The strongest networks are built on friendship. Be a friend not only to the people in your network, but to the people who matter the most to the people in your network.
Harvey MacKay
#41. Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.
Sam Walter Foss
#42. I don't know how to be a friend. I don't know how to be anything.
Gayle Forman
#43. After making this long and successful journey, you are not going to let someone bring you down by emotional bullying or manipulation. Give everyone an opportunity to be a friend, but choose only those who create a thriving environment.
Kaylyn Austen
#44. I believe in order to make a friend, you have to be a friend.
Weili Dai
#45. In order to be a friend to anybody, you have to be a friend to yourself. If you're not a friend to yourself, there's no way you're gonna have any friends.
Mike Tyson
#46. You can't be everybody's friend, you can't save the world, I learned this word: self-preservation. Once you do that, you can be friends with people, but how would you be a friend to anybody if you're not a friend to yourself.
Mike Tyson
#47. I knew how to be a friend, a lover, a partner. I knew how to make someone feel cherished and seen and listened to -- everything I had myself always so desperately wanted and been afraid I might never have because I was so used to being overlooked.
Alexis Hall
#48. When silence is a living thing, it can be a friend, sometimes even a comfort.
Dot Hutchison
#49. Be a friend. You don't need glory. Friendship is a simple story.
Edgar Guest
#50. I just feel that if somebody happened to fancy somebody else, well, then, I should be a friend that he can say it to.
Andrea Corr
#51. If you want to have a friend, then be a friend.
Mark Vernon
#52. To be publishing Stephen King, to be a friend to Stephen, when he is absolutely what got me into this business, is a really neat thing and something I don't take for granted.
Richard Chizmar
#53. 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.
Christopher Hitchens
#54. It's not enough to be friendly. You have to be a friend.
R.J. Palacio
#55. Are you a slave? Then you cannot be a friend. Are you a tyrant? Then you cannot have friends.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#56. You cannot be a friend to someone else, if you do not have a friendship with yourself.
Toni Sorenson
#57. Everybody has somebody. It could be a friend, a lover, a spouse, a writing partner, or even That One Person You See At The Coffee Shop each day. Sometimes they exist to comfort you. Sometimes they exist to drive you absolutely mad. Be open to either as a form of self-improvement.
Terry Pratchett
#58. He is never fired with admiration, since there is nothing great in his eyes. He cannot live in complaisance with others, except it be a friend; complaisance is the characteristic of a slave . . . .
Will Durant
#59. Friendship is the holiest of gifts;
God can bestow nothing more sacred upon us!
It enhances every joy, mitigates every pain.
Everyone can have a friend,
Who himself knows how to be a friend.
Christoph August Tiedge
#60. Then I read that Jesus was a friend of sinners. This still bothers me. Not because Jesus was a friend of sinners (because that came in really handy in my case). It bothered me because if I'm trying to live like Jesus, that means I'm supposed to be a friend of sinners too.
Dillon Burroughs
#61. To be a friend of the Everglades is not necessarily to spend time wandering around out there.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
#63. I knew Faulkner very well. He was a great friend of mine. Well, as much as you could be a friend of his, unless you were a fourteen-year-old nymphet. Then you could be a great friend!
Truman Capote
#65. Some of what we learned early on turned out to be true (the earth is round; if you want a friend be a friend; cleanliness is next to impossible) and some of it turned out to be false (Santa Claus; the Tooth Fairy; Kansas is more fun than Oz).
Peter McWilliams
#66. Dane touched my chin and lifted my face upward, and kissed me gently. Only then did I understand that Dane had always been a friend I had slept with, and how entirely different that was from having a lover who could be a friend.
Lisa Kleypas
#67. Well I'm looking at history," she said, pointing at me. "You used to be a friend, but now you stink as a friend! I came here to give you a second chance and you make me smell the crotch of an old book.
Jack Gantos
#68. The writer has to make pleasure for the reader - which, I think, is done by taking one's character's seriously and taking one's readers seriously -don't condescend or try to be tricky. Be a friend to your reader - I'd say that's a pretty good first step.
George Saunders
#69. A brook can be a friend in a special way. It talks to you with splashy gurgles. It cools your toes and lets you sit quietly beside it when you don't feel like speaking.
Joan Walsh Anglund
#70. If I hadn't read all of Jane Austen and DH Lawrence, Tolstoy and Proust, as well as the more fun stuff, I wouldn't know how to break bad news, how to sympathise, how to be a friend or a lover, because I wouldn't have any idea what was going on in anybody else's mind.
Sebastian Faulks
#71. To Have a Friend You Must Be a Friend.
Vicki Hinze
#72. And you told me life was learning how to be a friend.
Ben Howard
#73. Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.
William Arthur Ward
#74. You shall be told what pleased me to-day in the writings of
Hecato; it is these words: "What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself." That was
indeed a great benefit; such a person can never be alone. You may be sure that such a man is a friend to all mankind.
Seneca.
#75. It's the rule of the two F's: I've got to be a fan and I've got to be a friend. We only work with people we have a cool personal relationship with.
David Macklovitch
#76. To be a friend means to offer happiness. If love doesn't offer happiness, if it makes the other person cry all the time, then it's not love; it's the opposite.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#77. I have learned to be a friend to myself Great improvement this indeed Such a one can never be said to be alone for know that he who is a friend to himself is a friend to all mankind
Seneca.
#78. 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.
Mike Tyson
#79. You want to be a good parent and you want to be a friend, and it's hard to be both. You have to balance it as well as you can.
Willie Nelson
#80. One of the most important responsibilities in the Christian life is to care about others, smile at them, and be a friend to the friendless.
James Dobson
#81. I am a friend when I need to be a friend, a father when I need to be a father, a musician when music calls. I switch roles accordingly.
A.R. Rahman
#82. I think it is important to be a friend to your kids. But it is also equally important to set boundaries. My mother was a strong influence, and so was my dad. My mom was my friend whom I couldn't cross.
Karisma Kapoor
#83. One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
Sophocles
#84. If you go out looking for friends, you're going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.
Zig Ziglar
#85. It's scary to make friends, it's scarier to stand up for a friend, but it's scariest to not be a friend for fear will be your only company.
Justine Hail
#86. Christmas is an invitation by God to say: Look what I've done to come near to you. Now draw near to me ... I want to be a friend.
Timothy Keller
#87. Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.
Joe Manchin
#88. Got just enough room to be a friend of yours. Oh I hope you got room to be a friend of mine.
Aberjhani
#89. One of my mentors early on was Eli Harari, the founder of SanDisk, who happened to be a friend of my dad's.
Nick Woodman
#90. I can have different opinions with anybody. I can still be a friend with that person.
Larry The Cable Guy
#91. If we truly want to be tools in the hands of our Heavenly Father in bringing to pass His eternal purposes, we need only to be a friend.
Marlin K. Jensen
#92. Every Communist working in the mass movements should be a friend of the masses and not a boss over them, an indefatigable teacher and not a bureaucratic politician.
Mao Zedong
#93. Realize that to have friends one must first be a friend. Make friendship a priority in your life.
Goswami Kriyananda
#94. Do not assume a role you have not been given. In other words, don't do the things a wife does until you are a wife. Be a friend until he carries you over the threshold.
Michelle McKinney Hammond
#95. Sleep seems to be a friend who I've disappointed and no longer wants to come around.
Candace Knoebel
#96. Whatever it means to be a friend, taking a black eye for someone has to be in it.
Gary D. Schmidt
#97. What sort of man would you choose for yourself, Liadan?, he asked me.
One who is trustworthy, and true to himself, I answered straightaway. One who speaks his mind without fear. One who can be a friend as well as a husband. I would be contented with that.
Juliet Marillier
#98. I will be a Friend to you, and you shall take care of my Linen
Samuel Richardson
#99. The man that is popular with the world is not a friend of Jesus. You cannot serve two masters. The world hates Christ, and if you are a friend of the world you cannot be a friend of His. You may be sure that something is wrong with you when everybody is your friend.
Dwight L. Moody
#100. It's a great feeling to think that I can be a friend to so many people through my movies.
River Phoenix
