Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendship is Love without his wings!

- Byron, Lord

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

1.

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

Augustine, St.

2.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

3.

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

Johnson, Samuel

4.

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

5.

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

Storey, David

6.

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

7.

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

8.

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

9.

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

10.

Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

11.

I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

12.

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.

13.

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

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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

15.

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

Hazlip, E.R.

16.

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

Proverb, Russian

17.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

18.

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.

19.

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

Gay, John

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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

21.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

22.

A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

24.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

26.

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

Tate, Nahum

27.

It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

28.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

29.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

30.

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

Lee, Robert E.

31.

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

32.

If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

33.

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

34.

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

35.

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

36.

We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

37.

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

Auden, W. H.

38.

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

Hitopadesa

39.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

40.

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

Clark, Esther M.

41.

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

42.

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

Proverb, Jewish

43.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

44.

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

45.

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

47.

Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

48.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

49.

Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

50.

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

Uris, Leon