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Friendship And Selflessness Quotes About Putting Others First

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
Woodrow T. Wilson

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
Morrie Schwartz

The only true way to happiness is to love and be loved in return.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Mark Twain

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs

Friendship And Selflessness Quotes About Sacrificing For Friends

True friendship is when you walk into their house and your WiFi connects automatically.
Unknown

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.
Elbert Hubbard

A true friend is someone who is there for you when they'd rather be anywhere else.
Len Wein

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

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Jim Morrison

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

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau

A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.
Unknown

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.
Len Wein

Friendship And Selflessness Quotes About Being There For Each Other

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
Elbert Hubbard

Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.
Edna Buchanan

A friend is someone who reaches for your hand, but touches your heart.
Unknown

Friendship And Selflessness Quotes About Giving Without Expecting Anything In Return

Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of Love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving.
Osho

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when someone asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
Henry David Thoreau

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Khalil Gibran

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
Benjamin Disraeli

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
Elisabeth Foley

Friendship And Selflessness Quotes About The True Meaning Of Friendship

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
Muhammad Ali

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

Friendship And Selflessness Quotes About The Importance Of Selflessness In Friendships

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.
Wilson Mizner

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

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Friendship And Selflessness Quotes About The Selfless Nature Of True Friends

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success.
Doug Larson

A true friend is someone who is always there during the ups and downs, I actually have a few of those.
Mackenzie Astin

A friend is someone who gives you a new perspective on yourself.
Unknown

Friendship And Selflessness Quotes About The Rewards Of Selflessness In Friendships

The only measure of true friendship is selflessness.
Unknown

The greatest joy in life is the joy of giving. It is in giving that we receive.
Unknown

Friendship And Selflessness Quotes About The Joy Of Giving In Friendships

The greatest gift you can give someone is your time because when you give your time, you are giving a portion of your life that you will never get back.
Unknown

The best things in life are the people we love, the places we've been, and the memories we've made along the way.
Unknown

The greatest joy in life is to love and be loved in return.
Unknown

Friendship And Selflessness Quotes About The Selflessness That Strengthens Friendships

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
Thomas Aquinas

Friendship is a sheltering tree.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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