Quotes about Friendship
Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.
— Samuel Johnson
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
— Samuel Johnson
To let friendship die away by negligence and silence, is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of this weary pilgrimage.
— Samuel Johnson
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
— Samuel Johnson
God bless you, my dear!
— Samuel Johnson
Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
— Samuel Johnson
To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.
— Samuel Johnson
We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over so in a series of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over.
— Samuel Johnson
There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
— Samuel Johnson
Many are friends to the success of reformation, not to reformation.
— Samuel Rutherford
I think if Jesus came for the first time, and he was 33 1/2 years old and hung out with these guys, where would he be? They'd probably be at a coffee bar getting a latte or something.
— Michael Smith
Find someone who is having a hard time or is ill or lonely, and do something for him or her.
— Thomas Monson