Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

- Belloc, Hilaire

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

1.

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

2.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

3.

Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

4.

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

5.

A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

6.

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

Hazlitt, William

7.

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

8.

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

9.

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

Gay, John

10.

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

11.

Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

12.

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

Proverb, Indian

13.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

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

Blake, William

15.

If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

16.

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

17.

To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

18.

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

Randolf, G.

19.

Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

20.

A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

21.

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

O'Malley, Austin

22.

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

23.

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

24.

Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

25.

Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

26.

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

27.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

28.

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

29.

A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

30.

The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

31.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

32.

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

33.

Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

34.

Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

35.

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

36.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

37.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

38.

Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

39.

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

40.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

42.

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

43.

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

Larson, Doug

44.

Make friends before you need them

45.

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

46.

To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

47.

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

48.

Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

49.

Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.