Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Pepys, Samuel

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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

Mizner, Wilson

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

10.

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

11.

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

12.

There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

13.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

14.

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

Machado, Aaron

15.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

16.

But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

17.

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

18.

I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

19.

Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

20.

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

21.

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

22.

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

23.

Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

24.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

26.

What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

27.

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

Billings, Josh

28.

A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

29.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

30.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

31.

And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

32.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

33.

Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

34.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

38.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Uris, Leon

40.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

42.

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

43.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

44.

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

45.

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

Epicurus

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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

48.

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

49.

Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

50.

When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles