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

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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

Dickens, Charles

10.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

11.

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

Clark, Esther M.

12.

Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

13.

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.

14.

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

Proverb, Sicilian

15.

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

16.

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

17.

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

Pythagoras

18.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

19.

These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

20.

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

21.

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

22.

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

Chambers, Oswald

23.

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

24.

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

25.

Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

26.

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

27.

A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

28.

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

29.

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

Homer

30.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

31.

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

32.

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

33.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

34.

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

Euripides

35.

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

Proverb, Indian

36.

Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

37.

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

38.

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

39.

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

40.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

41.

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

42.

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

43.

Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

44.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

45.

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

46.

When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

47.

Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

48.

Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

49.

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.

50.

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall