Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

- Bacon, Francis

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Storey, David

Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

10.

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

Proverb

11.

The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

12.

To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

13.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

14.

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

15.

A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

16.

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

17.

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

18.

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

19.

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

20.

Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

21.

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

22.

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

23.

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

24.

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

Hazlitt, William

25.

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

26.

We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

27.

In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

28.

Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

29.

You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

30.

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

31.

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

Jerome, St.

32.

Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

33.

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

34.

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

35.

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

36.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

37.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

38.

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

39.

Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

40.

He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

41.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

42.

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

Mizner, Wilson

43.

A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

44.

Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

45.

When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

46.

Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

47.

A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

48.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

49.

May I always be worth of my friends.

50.

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

Powell, John Enoch