Thanking Friends Quotes:

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

- Laurence J. Peter

topic: Friendship, Best Friend, Jobs, Making Friends, Bff

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

- Bernard Meltzer

topic: Friendship, Thank You, True Friend, Impossible To Forget, Making Friends

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” —

- William Arthur Ward

topic: Thankful, Gratitude, Jobs, Joy And Gratitude, I Am Thankful

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Friendship, Good Morning, Thank You, New Friendship, Life Love And Friendship

Our most difficult task as a friend is to offer understanding when we don't understand.

- Robert Breault

topic: Friendship, Real, Understanding, Difficult Tasks, True Friend Is

In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

topic: Inspirational, Life, Thank You, Inspirational Gratitude, Become Rich

I give thanks to my Creator for this wonderful life where each of us has the opportunity to learn lessons we could not fully comprehend by any other means.

- Joseph B. Wirthlin

topic: Mean, Opportunity, Giving, Funny Thanksgiving Day, Learning Lessons

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

- Albert Schweitzer

topic: Friendship, Thank You, Basketball, I Am Thankful, Inspirational Thank You

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Friendship, Best Friend, Positive, Bff, Songs And Friendship

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: Inspirational, Life, Friendship, Makin Money, Bff

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Thank You, Inspirational Gratitude, Inspirational Thanksgiving

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

- Marcel Proust

source: Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

topic: Friendship, Happiness, Happy, Making Friends, Bff

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.

- Aristotle

topic: Friendship, Relationship, True Friend, Meaningful Friendship, Inspirational Friendship

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.

- Oprah Winfrey

source: FaceBook post by Oprah Winfrey from Oct 03, 2011

topic: Positive, Thank You, Thankful, Concentrating, Spiritual Blessings

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you?'

- William Arthur Ward

topic: Thanksgiving, Thank You, Gratitude, I Am Thankful, Spiritual Gratitude

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

- Albert Schweitzer

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship, Inner Life, I Am Thankful

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

- Mark Twain

source: Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.18, St. Martin's Press

topic: Inspirational, Relationship, Inspiring, Niceness, Kind Thoughts

I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of necessity. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Art, Philosophy, Men, New Friendship, Songs And Friendship

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

- Thornton Wilder

source: Thornton Wilder (1958). “The Cabala ; The Woman of Andros”

topic: Inspirational, Life, Inspiring, I Am Thankful, Inspirational Gratitude

Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.

- Henri Frederic Amiel

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Thank You, Daily Gratitude, Love Gratitude

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.

- William Blake

topic: Happiness, Thanksgiving, Thankful, I Am Thankful, Inspirational Thank You

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Friendship, Adventure, New Friendship, Meaning Of Friendship

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

- John F. Kennedy

topic: Inspirational, Thank You, Thanksgiving, I Am Thankful, Inspirational Gratitude

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

- Tennessee Williams

topic: Life, Friendship, Birthday, Making Friends, Inspiring Friends

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Friendship, True Love, Real Friends, Making Friends, New Friendship

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

topic: Life, Friendship, Happiness, Benevolent, Not Friends

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

- Henry Ford

topic: Inspirational, Friendship, Best Friend, Making Friends, Bff

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

- Marlene Dietrich

topic: Friendship, Best Friend, Cute Relationship, Making Friends, Bff

It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.

- John Templeton

source: John Templeton (1994). “Discovering Laws Of Life: Tfp”, p.287, Templeton Foundation Press

topic: Inspiring, Thank You, Nice, Niceness, Kindness Generosity