Top 36 Quotes About Sincere Friendship
#1. Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.
Jonathan Edwards
#2. Sincere deeds invite new friends.
Toba Beta
#3. In order to become the chisel that breaks the marble inside us, the artist must first become the hammer. [Soviet censor of paintings and photos]
Anthony Marra
#5. The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.
Giotto Di Bondone
#6. In many ways the recent history of the Ukraine can be seen as an intensified version of the history of our era. Most of the political issues are familiar to us. Most of the methods used to meet those issues are also familiar. Events in the Ukraine prefigured events through the rest of the world ...
Michael Moorcock
#7. I see guys who can't make 10 percent of what I make, and yet they have four Bentleys, three houses, and four bodyguards.
Chris Rock
#8. That is the honest nature of friendship. That is when it becomes sincere, and not self-serving.
R.A. Salvatore
#9. She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and I am too civil to say so, our letters are still as frequent and affectionate as ever, and our Attachment as firm and sincere as when it first commenced.
Jane Austen
#10. The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#11. Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend.
Samuel Johnson
#12. When a friendship crumbles, there are only really two things that can bring it back: a shitload of time, or a sincere apology.
Dahlia Adler
#13. In most cases, it is more satisfying to get a friend's answering machine and leave a cheery, tangible trace of your sincere commitment to the friendship than it is to engage in actual conversation.
Amy Krouse Rosenthal
#14. Develop a sincere curiosity and fascination towards people and life will become an adventure.
Mensah Oteh
#15. It is with sincere affection or friendship as with ghosts and apparitions,
a thing that everybody talks of, and scarce any hath seen.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#16. It was a summer night: laughter fell softly: it was the sort of night that if you wasn't making love to a woman you feel like you was the only person in the world like that
Samuel Selvon
#17. The best gift that we can give to our friends is true love and sincere appreciation.
Debasish Mridha
#18. Never was a man further from a partiality for Spain than I am. But I think I now have left them in a sincere and steady intention to cultivate the friendship of America.
Marquis De Lafayette
#19. The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed.
Ryszard Kapuscinski
#20. You will be a poet because you will always be humiliated.
W. H. Auden
#21. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.
Abraham Lincoln
#22. Love yourself as you love your neighbour. If you love your neighbour with a heavy heart, love yourself too with a heavy heart.
Israelmore Ayivor
#23. Ed Balls has made it crystal clear that, left to its own devices, a Labour government would simply carry on with the same budget policies as the Tories.
Nicola Sturgeon
#25. Whatever I contributed to the unique morale of the Cardinals was part of this growth, and so, of course, was my decision to have it out in public with the owners of organized baseball.
Curt Flood
#26. Go," Marasi said. "Do what you do best, Waxillium Ladrian."
"Which is what? Break things?"
"Break things," Marasi said, "with style.
Brandon Sanderson
#27. Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear; Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend.
Alexander Pope
#28. A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.
Abraham Lincoln
#29. The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents to him;
Guillaume-Thomas Francois Raynal
#30. Most people are willing to promise you a lot. A few are those who can promise you a little, just as much as they can.
Ljupka Cvetanova
#31. (Ah, lovely adolescence - when the "talented" are officially shunted off from the herd, thus putting the total burden of society's creative dreams on the thin shoulders of a few select souls, while condemning everyone else to live a more commonplace, inspiration-free existence! What a system . . . )
Elizabeth Gilbert
#32. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heaven did a recompense as largely send: He gave to mis'ry (all he had) a tear, He gained from Heav'n ('t was all he wish'd) a friend.
Thomas Gray
#33. My sincere thanks to friends and family, especially my mother, father, brother, and Mandy, who continue to love and support me despite my obsessions.
Jonathan Ball
#34. A short time in the presence of the Friends (the Sufis) is better than a hundred years' sincere, obedient dedication.
Idries Shah
#35. It just took all of that to come to a screeching halt, to get to the point of having nothing, for me to finally realize, Hey, what are you fighting with this for? Until then, I hadn't claimed my faith as my own; I had just grown up with it.
Scott Stapp
#36. The future is only an indifferent void no one cares about, but the past is filled with life, and its countenance is irritating, repellent, wounding, to the point that we want to destroy or repaint it. We want to be masters of the future only for the power to change the past.
Milan Kundera
