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

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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

2.

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

Talmud, The

3.

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

Hazlip, E.R.

4.

Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

5.

Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

6.

He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

7.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

8.

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

Ebers, George

9.

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

10.

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

Gay, John

11.

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

12.

Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

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

14.

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

Auden, W. H.

15.

A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

16.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

18.

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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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

20.

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

Euripides

21.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

22.

Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

23.

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

24.

A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

25.

I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

26.

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

27.

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

Proverb, Russian

28.

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

29.

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

30.

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

Hazlitt, William

31.

Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

32.

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

33.

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

34.

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

35.

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

Digest, Readers

36.

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

37.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Proverb, Jewish

41.

We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

42.

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

43.

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

White, Somers

44.

When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

45.

May I always be worth of my friends.

46.

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

Pepys, Samuel

47.

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

48.

Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil