Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

The time to make friends is before you need them.

- Proverb

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

1.

A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

2.

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

Mizner, Wilson

3.

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

Blake, William

4.

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

5.

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

6.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

7.

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

Homer

8.

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

9.

To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

10.

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

Mermet, Claude

11.

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

12.

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

Hazlitt, William

13.

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

Chambers, Oswald

14.

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.

15.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

16.

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

17.

Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

18.

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

19.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

20.

Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

21.

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

22.

Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

23.

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

Perry, Ralph B.

24.

A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

25.

Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

26.

A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

27.

Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

28.

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.

29.

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

30.

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.

31.

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

32.

To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

33.

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

34.

I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

35.

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

36.

Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

37.

There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

38.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

39.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

40.

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

41.

A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

42.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

43.

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

Yeats, William Butler

44.

Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

45.

A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas