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I hope you find these James Fenimore Cooper Quotes inspiring and motivational.
Friendship that flows from the heart
cannot be frozen by adversity,
as the water that flows from the spring
cannot congeal in winter.
- James Fenimore Cooper
Related topics: Friendship Relationship
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon
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
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
May your right hand always be
stretched out in friendship, never in want.
- Irish Blessing
A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend -
and he's a priest.
- Erma Bombeck
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
A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
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)
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve
So long as the memory of certain
beloved friends lives in my heart,
I shall say that life is good.
- Helen Keller
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
Stand with anybody that stands right,
stand with him while he is right
and part with him when he goes wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln
Friends love misery, in fact.
Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky
or too successful or too pretty,
our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
- Erica Jong
I hate the giving of the hand
unless the whole man accompanies it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When friends stop being frank and useful to each other,
the whole world loses some of its radiance.
- Anatole Broyard
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
When true friends meet in adverse hour,
'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower.
A watery way an instant seen,
The darkly closing clouds between.
- Sir Walter Scott
In all our contacts, it is probably the sense
of being really needed and wanted
which gives us the greatest satisfaction
and creates the most lasting bond.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Friendship based solely upon gratitude
is like a photograph; with time it fades.
- Carmen Sylva
It is the first law of friendship
that it has to be cultivated.
The second is to be indulgent
when the first law is neglected.
- Voltaire
Marriage is a sort of friendship recognized by the police.
- Anonymous
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
A best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous
We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
- Henry David Thoreau
None of us got where we are solely by
pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
- Thurgood Marshall
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
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious
as to have friends at a distance;
they make the latitudes and the longitudes.
- Henry David Thoreau
There is no hope of joy except in human relations.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are
and then wait to hear the answer.
- Anonymous
I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington
The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale
A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo
True friendship is a plant of slow growth,
and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity
before it is entitled to the appellation.
- George Washington
Friendship is certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
A man's friendships are, like his will,
invalidated by marriage -
but they are also no less invalidated
by the marriage of his friends.
- Samuel Butler
"Sometimes," said Pooh, "the smallest things take up the most room in your heart."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
- Erma Bombeck
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Latin Proverb
"I wonder what Piglet is doing," thought Pooh.
"I wish I were there to be doing it, too."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
A single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia
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