Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Glasgow, Arnold H.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

1.

Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

2.

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

Tate, Nahum

3.

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

4.

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

5.

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

6.

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

7.

Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

8.

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

9.

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

10.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

11.

Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

12.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

13.

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

14.

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

Bible

15.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

16.

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

Saying, Hasidic

17.

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

Jerome, St.

18.

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

Epicurus

19.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

20.

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

21.

There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

22.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

23.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

24.

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

Crane, Frank

25.

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

26.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

27.

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

28.

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

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

30.

Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

31.

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

32.

Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

33.

For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

34.

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

35.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

36.

Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

37.

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

38.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

39.

Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

40.

We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

41.

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

Aristotle

42.

No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

43.

Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

44.

Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

45.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

46.

He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

47.

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.

48.

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

49.

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

50.

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.