Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Hazlitt, William

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

1.

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

2.

Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

3.

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

Billings, Josh

4.

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

5.

How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

6.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

7.

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

8.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

9.

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

10.

That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

11.

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

O'Malley, Austin

12.

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

13.

The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

15.

The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

16.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

17.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

18.

To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

19.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

20.

In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

21.

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

22.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

23.

Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

24.

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

25.

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

Digest, Readers

26.

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

Wycherley, William

27.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

29.

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

Augustine, St.

30.

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

Chambers, Oswald

31.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

32.

Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

33.

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

34.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

35.

Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

36.

When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

37.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

38.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

40.

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

Mermet, Claude

41.

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

42.

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

Proverb, Chinese

43.

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

44.

Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

45.

Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

46.

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

47.

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

48.

A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

49.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

50.

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William