Facebook share Tweet This Email this
I hope you find these James Francis Byrnes Quotes inspiring and motivational.
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
Related topics: Friendship Relationship
Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling
I had three chairs in my house;
one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
- Henry David Thoreau
Please sign-up for my Free Daily Inspirational Quotes and Insights Email on the form below.
Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
There comes that mysterious meeting in life
when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be,
igniting the circuits of our highest potential.
- Rusty Berkus
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him,
for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low,
could still be saved; the bitterest enemy
and also he who was your friend could again be your friend;
love that has grown cold can kindle
- Soren Kierkegaard
A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
A single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
Everyone should have at least two friends -
one to talk to and one to talk about.
- Anonymous
Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart,
it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Sometimes our light goes out but
is blown into flame by another human being.
Each of us owes deepest thanks
to those who have rekindled this light.
- Albert Schweitzer
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
- Charles Darwin
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are
and then wait to hear the answer.
- Anonymous
A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
Friends are like bras:
close to your heart and there for support.
- Anonymous
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
- Jacques Delille
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that,
but the really great make you feel that
you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
No man is truly married until he understands
every word his wife is NOT saying.
- Anonymous
In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton
I do not wish to treat friendships daintily,
but with roughest courage.
When they are real, they are
not glass threads or frost-work,
but the solidest thing we know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
- Henry David Thoreau
"Sometimes," said Pooh, "the smallest things take up the most room in your heart."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied
by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
- Iris Murdoch
A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
Friendship is certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen
I get by with a little help from my friends.
- John Lennon
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
Friends are God's apology for relations.
- Hugh Kingsmille
Men kick friendship around like a football,
but it doesn't seem to crack.
Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
If there ever comes a day when we can't be together,
keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
We can never replace a friend.
When a man is fortunate enough to have several,
he finds they are all different.
No one has a double in friendship.
- Johann Schiller
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
True friends are appreciative and never demanding.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is a magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships;
it softens the heart,
and even affects the nervous system
of those who have no heart.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold;
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Life is partly what we make it,
and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
- Tehyi Hsieh
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell
Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being
to those who are on the road with you,
and accept as something precious
what comes back to you from them.
- Albert Schweitzer
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar,
but I cherish the friend who for me
does not consult his calendar.
- Robert Brault
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is someone who understands my past,
believes in my future,
and accepts me just the way I am.
- Anonymous
From wine what sudden friendship springs.
- John Gay
So long as the memory of certain
beloved friends lives in my heart,
I shall say that life is good.
- Helen Keller
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
- Abraham Lincoln
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler
Thank you for visiting: James Francis Byrnes Quotes.
Please sign up on the form below to receive my Free Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes email.
May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Get a Daily Motivational Quote each day by email. (free)
All materials & writings are copyright © Jonathan Lockwood Huie, except for quotes and
other specifically identified material which belong to their respective copyright holders if applicable.
You may read about our disclaimer, privacy policy, terms of use, participation in affiliate programs, copyright policy, and more.