Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

10.

The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

11.

Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

12.

It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

13.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

15.

I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

16.

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

17.

A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

18.

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

20.

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

21.

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

22.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

23.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

24.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

25.

Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

26.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

28.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

29.

Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

30.

For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

31.

Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

32.

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

33.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

34.

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

35.

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

36.

Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

37.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

38.

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

Powell, John Enoch

39.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

40.

The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

41.

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

42.

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

43.

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

44.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

45.

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

Bible

46.

Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

47.

The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

48.

... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

49.

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

Storey, David

50.

Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.