Encouraging Seal

A friend to honesty and a foe to crime. - Allan Pinkerton

Hold a true friend with both your hands. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

It costs nothing to encourage an artist. - Kevin Smith

To God, thy country, and thy friend be true. - Bill Vaughan

An open enemy is better than a false friend. - Greek Proverb

I was the kid next door's imaginary friend. - Emo Philips

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. - Samuel Butler

My friend has false teeth - with braces on them. - Steven Wright

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. - William Blake

A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself. - Frank Crane

Inspiration fires you up; motivation keeps you burning. - Stuart Aken

A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines. - Benjamin Franklin

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

When you ascend the hill of prosperity may you not meet a friend. - Mark Twain

I am a great friend of public amusements; they keep people from vice. - Samuel Johnson

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship. - Saint Francis de Sales

To give counsel as well as to take it is a feature of true friendship. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. - Thomas Edison

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. - Walter Winchell

Sometimes it's the people you can't help who inspire you the most. - Melinda Gates

That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart. - Kristin Hannah

What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself. - Hecato

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

He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. - St. Basil of Caesarea

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. - John D Rockefeller

I can trust my friends. These people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow. - Cher

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration? - George Eliot

Great souls by instinct by each other turn
Demand alliance, and in friendship burn. - Joseph Addison

It is difficult to inspire others to accomplish what you haven't been willing to try. - Unknown

Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe,
Are lost on hearers that our merits know. - Homer

Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Don't look back, you can never look back. - Don Henley

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority. - Mencius

Happy marriages are based on a deep friendship, mutual respect and enjoyment of each others' company. - John M Gottman

I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish. - Leon Uris

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. - Charlotte Bronte

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. - Henry David Thoreau

Do you think you're safe in a car with your seatbelt on? Dream on. My friend thought so. Now she's pregnant. - Anke Engelke

My friend Sally is a nudist. I went to her house. The closets have no doors. The walls are covered with see-through wallpaper. - Steven Wright

Friendship... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself..." - C S Lewis

When people come alongside us during difficult times to give us renewed courage, a renewed spirit, renewed hope - that's encouragement. - David Jeremiah