Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

- Hitopadesa

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

1.

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

2.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

3.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

4.

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

5.

Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

6.

The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

7.

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

Proverb, Indian

8.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

9.

In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

10.

Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

11.

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

12.

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

13.

Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

14.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

15.

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

16.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

17.

A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

18.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

19.

A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

20.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

21.

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

22.

He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

23.

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

24.

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

Bourne, Randolph S.

25.

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

26.

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

Hazlitt, William

27.

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

28.

May I always be worth of my friends.

29.

Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

30.

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

31.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

32.

A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

34.

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

35.

Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

36.

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

37.

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

Dyke, Henry Van

38.

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

39.

In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

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.

41.

In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

42.

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

Proverb, Sicilian

43.

If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

44.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

45.

Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

46.

If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

47.

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

48.

You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

49.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

50.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo