Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Breton, Nicholas

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

1.

I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

2.

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

3.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

4.

Make friends before you need them

5.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

6.

A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

7.

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

Auden, W. H.

8.

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

Luther, Martin

9.

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

Tate, Nahum

10.

Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

11.

Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

12.

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

13.

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

Proverb, Russian

14.

Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

15.

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

16.

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

Augustine, St.

17.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

18.

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

19.

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

20.

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

Hitopadesa

21.

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

Bach, Richard

22.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

23.

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

Uris, Leon

24.

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

25.

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

26.

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

Larson, Doug

27.

Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

28.

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

29.

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

Crane, Frank

30.

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

31.

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

FeNelon, Francois

32.

With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

33.

Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

34.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

35.

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

36.

Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

37.

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

White, Somers

38.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

39.

When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

40.

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

41.

Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

42.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

43.

From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

44.

Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

45.

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

46.

You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

47.

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

48.

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.

49.

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

Gay, John

50.

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