Inspirational Friendship Quotes

Sir James M. Barrie:
Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

Alexander Hamilton:
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.

May Sarton:
Though friendship is not quick to burn, it is explosive stuff.

Thich Nhat Hanh:
Though we all have the fear and the seeds of anger within us, we must learn not to water those seeds and instead nourish our positive qualities – those of compassion, understanding, and loving kindness.

Seneca:
Time heals what reason cannot.

Confucius:
To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue... gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

William Hazlitt:
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.

German proverb:
To change and to change for the better are two different things.

Philip Massinger
To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.

Abraham Lincoln
To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.