Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

- Hazlitt, William

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

1.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

2.

Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

3.

Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

4.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

5.

Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

6.

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

7.

It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

8.

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

9.

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

Bible

10.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

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

12.

A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

13.

A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

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.

15.

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

16.

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

17.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

18.

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

19.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

20.

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

21.

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

22.

We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

23.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

24.

The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

25.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

26.

The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

27.

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

28.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

29.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

30.

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

Seneca

31.

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

Hazlitt, William

32.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

33.

And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

34.

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

35.

It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

36.

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

Proverb, Spanish

37.

The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

38.

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

39.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

40.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

41.

Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

42.

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

Proverb

43.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

44.

A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

45.

Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

46.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

47.

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

Proverb

48.

Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

49.

It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

50.

Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag