Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

- Johnson, Samuel

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Bible

Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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

Sallust

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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.

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

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

10.

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

Crane, Frank

11.

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

12.

Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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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.

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

15.

In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

18.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

19.

Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

20.

Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

21.

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

22.

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

23.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

25.

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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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

28.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

29.

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

Bach, Richard

30.

Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

31.

Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

32.

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.

33.

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

Proverb, Indian

34.

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.

35.

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

36.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

37.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

38.

Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

39.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

40.

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

41.

Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

42.

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

Billings, Josh

43.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

44.

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

45.

To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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

Proverb, Russian

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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle