Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

1.

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

2.

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

3.

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

4.

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

5.

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

6.

Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

7.

Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

8.

Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

9.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

10.

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

11.

May I always be worth of my friends.

12.

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

Hazlitt, William

13.

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

14.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

15.

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

16.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

17.

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

18.

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.

19.

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

20.

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

21.

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

22.

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

23.

From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

24.

Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

25.

Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

26.

Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

27.

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

28.

Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

29.

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

Proverb, Sicilian

30.

Make friends before you need them

31.

He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

32.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

33.

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

34.

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

35.

There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

36.

Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

37.

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

Chambers, Oswald

38.

There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

39.

Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

40.

However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

41.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

42.

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

Mermet, Claude

43.

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

44.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.