Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

- Plautus, Titus Maccius

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

1.

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

Proverb, Russian

2.

Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

3.

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

4.

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

White, Somers

5.

Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

6.

Make friends before you need them

7.

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

8.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

9.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

10.

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

11.

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

12.

To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

13.

Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

14.

And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

15.

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

Perry, Ralph B.

16.

You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

17.

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

18.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

19.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

20.

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

21.

A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

22.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

23.

Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

24.

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

Proverb

25.

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

26.

Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

27.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

28.

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

29.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

30.

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.

31.

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

Mizner, Wilson

32.

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

37.

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

38.

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

39.

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

40.

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

Hazlitt, William

41.

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

42.

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

43.

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

44.

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.

45.

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

46.

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

Fuller, Thomas

47.

Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

48.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

49.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

50.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb