Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

1.

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

Euripides

2.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

3.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

4.

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

6.

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

7.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

8.

Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

9.

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

Augustine, St.

10.

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

11.

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

Homer

12.

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

13.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

14.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

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.

16.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

18.

Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

19.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

20.

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

21.

Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

22.

What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

23.

A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

26.

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

Proverb, Chinese

27.

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

28.

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

Pepys, Samuel

29.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

30.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

31.

A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

32.

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

33.

It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

34.

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.

35.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

36.

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

Sallust

37.

And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

38.

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