A home-made card is much more personal than a Hallmark card, but it's not always easy to find the perfect quotation to go inside. Whether you want to wish someone you care about a Happy Birthday or just express gratitude for their friendship, there are many sayings to choose from right here.
Quotes for Best Friend Birthday Cards
Event the most simple birthday card can become a most treasured possession if the words inside are meaningful. Anyone of the following quotations would be ideal text for a birthday card to a close friend.
There are two worlds; the wold that we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination. (Leigh Hunt)
I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. (Charlotte Bronte)
The greatest achievement was, at first and for a time, a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg; and in the highest vision of the soul, a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities. (James Allen)
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined! As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness. (Henry David Thoreau)
We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or the red fires of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through the bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true. (Woodrow Wison)
For more quotes for friends, see: How to Say I Love You
Quotes For and About Best Friends
Sometimes it is not easy to put into words the value that one person, a friend, holds for another. Some of these quotes might also be ideal for anyone planning a wedding speech.
Silence makes the real conversation between friends. (Annon)
Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. (Anon)
There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend. (Voltaire)
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art...it has no survival value...; rather is one of those things that give value to survival. (C.S. Lewis)
May the road rise to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back,
the sun shine warm upon your face,
and the rain fall soft upon your fields,
and until we meet again, may
God hold you in the hollow of his Hand. (Irish Quote)
Friendship is a sheltering tree. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
May you have enough...
happiness to keep you sweet;
enough trials to keep you strong;
enough sorrow to keep you human;
enough hope to keep you happy;
enough failure to keep you humble;
enough success to keep you eager;
enough friends to keep give you comfort;
enough faith and courage in yourself to banish depression;
enough wealth to meet your needs;
enough determination to make each day a better day than yesterday. (Annon)
Always Tell a Friend They are Special
Whether one chooses to borrow from the above quotes or to use their own words when creating a card for a special friend, never overlook the opportunity to show somebody that they are important. Everyone needs to hear this once in a while. If it happens to be Valentine's Day, try one of these Romantic Quotes.
Looking for more Quotes? Read Wedding Quotes for Toasts and Speeches
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