Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

- Auden, W. H.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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.

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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.

Johnson, Samuel

Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Mizner, Wilson

10.

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

Blake, William

11.

Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

12.

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

13.

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

14.

A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

15.

What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

16.

Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

17.

The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

18.

It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

19.

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

20.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

21.

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

22.

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

23.

Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

24.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

25.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

26.

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

27.

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

28.

A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

30.

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

31.

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

32.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

33.

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

34.

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

35.

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

36.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

37.

There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

38.

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

Talmud, The

39.

Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

40.

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

41.

Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

42.

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

43.

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

44.

In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

45.

However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

46.

Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

47.

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

48.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

49.

Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

50.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine