Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

2.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

3.

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

4.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

5.

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.

6.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

7.

Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

8.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

9.

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

10.

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

Mermet, Claude

11.

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

12.

Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

13.

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

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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

15.

He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

16.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

17.

It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

18.

I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

19.

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

Bach, Richard

20.

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

Holz, Julie

21.

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

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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

23.

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

24.

God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

25.

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

Dyke, Henry Van

26.

Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

27.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

28.

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

29.

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

30.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

31.

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

32.

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.

33.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

34.

May I always be worth of my friends.

35.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

36.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

37.

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

Digest, Readers

38.

There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

39.

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

Wein, Len

40.

To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

41.

Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

42.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

43.

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

44.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

45.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

46.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

47.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

48.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

49.

The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

50.

Everybody needs one essential friend.