Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

- Dalai Lama

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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.

Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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

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

10.

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

Proverb

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Storey, David

14.

Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

15.

Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

16.

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

17.

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

18.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

19.

Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

20.

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

21.

Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

22.

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

23.

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

24.

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

25.

Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

26.

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

27.

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

Luther, Martin

28.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

30.

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

31.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

32.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

33.

A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

34.

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

35.

One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

36.

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

37.

All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

38.

Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

39.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

40.

A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

41.

In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

42.

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

Dickens, Charles

43.

Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

44.

Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

45.

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

Billings, Josh

46.

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.

47.

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

48.

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

49.

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

Powell, John Enoch

50.

A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.