Quotes About Encouragement And Friendship

#1. Today I have withdrawn my candidacy for President of the United States. I hope that my country and my party have benefited from our having made this effort. Jeri and I will always be grateful for the encouragement and friendship of so many wonderful people.

Fred Thompson

#2. Stop. Stop trying to make the illusion of strength. You don't need it. Not here. Not now. Let yourself be sad until the real strength returns.

Elise Kova

#3. We are sisters.
We are brothers.
We are family.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. We dropped our hands, both embarrassed by the sincerity of the moment. But I was learning, Sometimes you had to put it all out there, no matter how hard it felt to do so. When the people in your life were worth it, so was the risk.

Gwenda Bond

#5. Even though I thought I wouldn't - could never - I do enjoy looking at him. It is like seeing one's self, like seeing one's self with a certain sense of remove.

A.M. Homes

#6. As people grow up, they realize it's less important to have more friends and more important to have real ones.

Lauren Conrad

#7. In order to assure an adequate national defense, it is necessary - and sufficient - to be in a position in case of war to conquer the command of the air.

Giulio Douhet

#8. For a permanent solution to easing tension and soothe the rough waters of the world that cause people to go to drugs, drinking, gambling, pornography, overeating, or anything that will give them some temporary relief, you can't beat the support and encouragement of a friend.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#9. In 20 years of comedy, I've probably had a dozen good points.

Doug Stanhope

#10. There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encouragements, hold him to his task. What has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. Sneaky, manipulating, merciless bloodsucker ... " A chuckle drifted up to me. "Pillow talk already? You'll have me hard before we're even back in our room ...

Jeaniene Frost

#12. In a world full of cynics, critics, and competitors, we get to choose instead to be cheerleaders for others.

Shelley Hendrix

#13. The best foundation for relationships to grow, flourish, and succeed is a deep-rooted friendship.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#14. Love builds, encourages and strengthens.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. My nickname is Dickie Jukebox.

Richard Simmons

#16. Who cannot open an honest mind No friend will he be of mine.

Euripides

#17. I admire some people for their brilliance and I respect others for their strength. But I am indebted to those who can rekindle my spirit.

Steve Goodier

#18. Such a simple thing, kindness. Such a simple thing. A nice word of encouragement, given when needed. An act of friendship. A passing smile.

R.J. Palacio

#19. Cry if you must. Scream. Get it all out of your system, and then we'll have fun. It won't last forever, but it will keep you busy for tonight.

Jamie McGuire

#20. Every kind of relationship needs encouragement from both parties. Be it marriage, dating, friendship, enmity etc.

Nike Thaddeus

#21. Spend sunny afternoons writing. Take weekends in the country. Dream. Drink good wine, eat fabulous cheese and great bread. Make the kind of love that destroys the bed.

Rachel Hauck

#22. Until I close my eyes to this earth for the last time, I will always be with you, happy to repay for the rest of my life the friendship and encouragement you have shown me since the day we met.

Steven F. Freeman

#23. Reality! But what does this word mean? Each has his own reality. I draw upon my personal reality upon the dark side of myself, my unconscious.

Federico Fellini

#24. Encouragement is a mark of true friendship.

Glenn C. Stewart

#25. Reynolds Lucius Wadsworth III was Waddy's real name, the result of a three-generation tradition of unparalleled cruelty in the naming of first-born boys.

Terry Brooks

#26. But people need lift, too. People don't get moving, they don't soar, they don't achieve great heights, without someone buoying them up.

Elizabeth Wein

#27. If you are 26 years old and you're waking up under Star Wars sheets ... the Force is not with you.

Gary Gulman

#28. For although greed of itself is idolatry, there was still the additional worship of the idols, or . Rachel

Martin Luther

#29. Love is divine force of existence.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#30. The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character.

George Eliot

#31. Blessed is the man who has the gift of making friends; for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of oneself, and seeing and appreciating whatever is noble and living in another man.

Thomas Hughes

#32. Don't look for the ninety percent of the darkness in a person's soul. Look for the ten percent of light they have left, then lend them yours because light was meant to be shared.

Shannon L. Alder

#33. Delight is to him -- a far, far upward, and inward delight -- who against the proud gods and commodores of this earth, ever stands forth his own inexorable self.

Herman Melville

#34. I can't stand it when restaurants don't have a sense of place in a city. When I'm in London, I want to know I'm in London. When you're sitting in my joint, you know you're sitting in Seattle.

Tom Douglas

#35. Grateful thanks to good friends, who lifted us, when we fall.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#36. If someone listens, or stretches out a hand, or whispers a kind word of encouragement, or attempts to understand a lonely person, extraordinary things begin to happen.

Loretta Girzaitis

#37. Gentleness towards self and others makes life a little lighter.

Deborah Day