Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Prentice, George D.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Toast, Irish

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

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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

Addison, Joseph

10.

It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

11.

When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

12.

If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

13.

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

Yeats, William Butler

14.

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

15.

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

16.

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

17.

Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

18.

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

Jerome, St.

19.

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

Bach, Richard

20.

Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

21.

Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

22.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

23.

In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

25.

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

26.

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

Crane, Frank

27.

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

28.

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

29.

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

30.

An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

31.

A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

32.

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

Billings, Josh

33.

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

34.

The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

35.

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

Perry, Ralph B.

36.

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.

37.

Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

38.

A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

39.

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.

40.

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

Aristotle

41.

Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

42.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

43.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

44.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

45.

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

46.

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.

47.

Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

48.

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

49.

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

Pepys, Samuel

50.

Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.