Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

- Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

1.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

2.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

3.

Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

4.

Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

5.

Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

6.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

7.

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

Dickens, Charles

8.

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

9.

In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

10.

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

11.

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

Homer

12.

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

13.

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

Tate, Nahum

14.

There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

15.

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

16.

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

Proverb, Russian

17.

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

18.

A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

19.

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

20.

In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

21.

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

22.

You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

23.

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

Fuller, Thomas

24.

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

Billings, Josh

25.

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

Proverb, English

26.

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

Larson, Doug

27.

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

28.

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

29.

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

Ustinov, Peter

30.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

31.

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

Augustine, St.

32.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

33.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

34.

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

Bible

35.

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

36.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

37.

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

38.

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

39.

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

40.

Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

41.

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

Digest, Readers

42.

In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

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

Johnson, Samuel

44.

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

Fuller, Thomas

45.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

46.

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

Prentice, George D.

47.

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

Aristotle

48.

May I always be worth of my friends.

49.

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

50.

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

Richter, Jean Paul