Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

- Owens, Jesse

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

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.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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

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

Hazlitt, William

You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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

Mermet, Claude

The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

10.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

11.

Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

12.

I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

13.

Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

14.

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

15.

Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

16.

Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

17.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

18.

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

19.

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

20.

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

21.

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

Larson, Doug

22.

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

23.

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

Machado, Aaron

24.

Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

25.

A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

26.

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

27.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

28.

Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

29.

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

30.

These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

31.

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

Crane, Frank

32.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

33.

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

Santayana, George

34.

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

35.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

36.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

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

Proverb, Russian

38.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

39.

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

40.

Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

41.

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

Wein, Len

42.

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

43.

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

44.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

46.

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

Aristotle

47.

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

48.

The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

49.

A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

50.

I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William