Encouraging Seal

Friendship? Yes, please. - Charles Dickens

Inspiration is remembering the future. - Unknown

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

It costs nothing to encourage an artist. - Kevin Smith

Inspiration and genius - one and the same. - Victor Hugo

Friendship is a plant we must often water. - German Proverb

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend. - John Singer Sargent

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. - Benjamin Franklin

The friendship that can cease has never been real. - St. Jerome

It is easier to forgive an enemy than it is a friend. - Madame Dorothee Deluzy

You will always be my best friend - you know too much! - Unknown

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

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies. - Gore Vidal

The death of a friend is equivalent to the loss of a limb. - German Proverb

That's your best friend and your worst enemy - your own brain. - Fred Durst

A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so. - Aristotle

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

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. - Arnold H. Glasgow

Amateurs wait for inspiration. The rest of us just get up and go to work. - Chuck Close

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

Those who cannot give friendship will rarely receive it, and never hold it. - Dagobert D. Runes

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

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend. - St. Augustine

Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend. - Mark Twain

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

The friend that always finds time to spend with you without consulting his or her calendar is a true friend. - Ellen J. Barrier

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. - Plutarch

Sometimes me think, 'What is Friend?' and then me say, 'Friend is someone to share the last cookie with.' - Cookie Monster

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks. - Johann Gottfried Von Herder

The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends. - Samuel Johnson

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

Don't expect your friend to be a perfect person. But help your friend to become a perfect person. That is true friendship. - Mother Teresa

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend. - Albert Camus

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad. - Arnold H. Glasow

If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith. - Aung San Suu Kyi

What is it about friendship that makes being among friends so much richer than being among the most accomplished and interesting strangers? - Sandy Sheehy

If you go out looking for friends, you're going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere. - Zig Ziglar

When I know that, if I have no inspiration whatsoever, when I come and I just feel empty, I have nothing, I know that I can still play the scene. - Christopher Walken