Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?
Dalai Lama
I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.
Abraham Lincoln
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
Henry Ford
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
Thomas Jefferson
Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.
William Shakespeare
Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.
John C. Maxwell
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
Benjamin Franklin
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Oscar Wilde
Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
Robert Louis Stevenson
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Alice Walker
What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
C.S Lewis
Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
George Herbert
True friends stab you in the front.
Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Elbert Hubbard
Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
Miguel de Cervantes
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
Martin Luther
Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.
The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King
