You have to be single minded, drive only for one thing on which you have decided. And if it looks as if you might be getting there, all kinds of people, including some you thought were your loyal friends will suddenly show up… to trip you, blacken you, and break your spirit.

My dogs have been my most loyal friends and constant companions.

The forest is my loyal friend
A Delphic shrine to me.

Making a hundred friends is not a miracle. The miracle is to make a single friend who will stand by your side even when hundreds are against you.

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

They motivate us to play, be affectionate, seek adventure and be loyal.

If you haven‘t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.

Be careful who you call your friends. I’d rather have four quarters than one hundred pennies.

My dogs are crazy. They’re always getting into some kind of trouble but then again, they’re my most loyal friends.

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

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.

Stop eating junk. Be a good listener and a loyal friend.

No medicine is more valuable , none more efficacious, none better suited to the cure of our temporal ills than a friend to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble, and with whom we may share happiness in time of joy.

If alcohol is queen, then tobacco is her consort. It’s a fond companion for all occasions, a loyal friend through fair weather and foul.

Thorns may hurt you, men desert you, sunlight turn to fog; but you’re never friendless ever, if you have a dog.

We cannot hope only to leave our children a bigger car, a bigger bank account. We must hope to give them a sense of what it means to be a loyal friend, a loving parent, a citizen who leaves his home, his neighborhood and town better than he found it.

Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I’ve ever thought I’d have.

At this very moment, you may be saying to yourself that you have any number of admirable qualities. You are a loyal friend, a caring person, someone who is smart, dependable, fun to be around. That’s wonderful, and I’m happy for you, but let me ask you this: are you being any of those things to yourself?

I DO not count the hours I spend In wandering by the sea; The forest is my loyal friend, Like God it useth me.

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare – and precious as a pearl.

The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

I know amazing people in fashion who are anything but fake. They are very real and very sensitive. They are happy and sad. They are loyal friends.

When you already believe something, how can you suddenly stop? When you are a loyal friend, how can you no longer be one?

All I want is good, honest, loyal friends.

Friendship with oneself is all important.

I think if I’ve learned anything about friendship, it’s to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don’t walk away, don’t be distracted, don’t be too busy or tired, don’t take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.

I get by with a little help from my friends.

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.

I’ve always felt that having a garden is like having a good and loyal friend.

I’m an awfully loyal friend. Once I’ve started a relationship with someone, it’s like they are syrup and I’m a pancake. Their syrup gets into my pancake, so to speak.