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“The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty, esteem, cordiality, sympathy, affection, readiness to aid, to help, to stick, to fight for, if need be. ... Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.”

Ifs Way Needs Helping Fighting Friendship Return Sticks Affection Aids Loyalty Esteem True Friend Old Friends Readiness True Friend Is Cordiality

Author:B. C. Forbes

“Friendship with oneself is all important.”

Source: What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt

“Friendship is cemented by interest, vanity, or the want of amusement; it seldom implies esteem, or even mutual regard.”

Want Interest Friendship Regard Esteem Vanity Mutual Amusement

Book:The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

“Friendship is made up of esteem and pleasure; pity is composed of sorrow and contempt: the mind may for some time fluctuate between them, but it can never entertain both at once.”

Mind May Made Friendship Pleasure Sorrow Pity Esteem Contempt

Book:The vicar of Wakefield, poems, and essays

Source: The vicar of Wakefield, poems, and essays

“To those who have lived long together, everything heard and everything seen recalls some pleasure communicated, some benefit conferred, some petty quarrel or some slight endearment. Esteem of great powers, or amiable qualities newly discovered may embroider a day or a week, but a friendship of twenty years is interwoven with the texture of life.”

Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

“Ties of blood are not always ties of friendship; but friendship founded on merit, on esteem, and on mutual trust, becomes more vital and more tender when strengthened by the ties of blood.”

Friendship Blood Esteem Merit Ties Mutual Mutual Trust

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“I would give more for the private esteem and love of one than for the public praise of ten thousand.”

Giving Friendship Thousand Ten And Love Praise Esteem

Author:William Rounseville Alger

“Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.”

Source: The Writings of George Washington: pt. I. Official letters relating to the French war, and private letters before the American revolution: March, 1754-May, 1775

“We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies.”

Source: Rainbow Drive

“Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.”

Men Love Kind May Values Friendship Love You Friends Dear Worthy Esteem Settling Reverence Piety Exemplary Kind Man

Book:The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume II: 1773-1776

Source: The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume II: 1773-1776

“Friends broaden our horizons. They serve as new models with whom we can identify. They allow us to be ourselves-and accept us that way. They enhance our self-esteem because they think we're okay, because we matter to them. And because they matter to us-for various reasons, at various levels of intensity-they enrich the quality of our emotional life.”

Thinking Way Self Matter Reason Friendship Levels Quality Accepting Self Esteem Emotional Models Okay Various Esteem Horizon Intensity Emotional Life

Author:Judith Viorst