Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

- Aquinas, St. Thomas

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

10.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

11.

Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

12.

Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

13.

It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

14.

Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

15.

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

16.

A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

17.

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

18.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

19.

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

20.

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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

Ziglar, Zig

22.

You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

23.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

24.

The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

25.

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

26.

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

27.

There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

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We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

30.

Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

31.

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

32.

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

33.

Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

34.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

35.

Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

36.

I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

37.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

39.

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

40.

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

Crane, Frank

41.

As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

42.

God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

43.

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

44.

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

46.

Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

48.

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

49.

Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.