Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

- Proverb, Russian

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Darwin, Charles R.

Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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.

Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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

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Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

11.

May I always be worth of my friends.

12.

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

13.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

14.

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

15.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

16.

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

17.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

18.

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

Santayana, George

19.

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

Fuller, Thomas

20.

It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

21.

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

Bible

22.

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

Bach, Richard

23.

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

24.

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.

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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

28.

Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

29.

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

30.

Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

31.

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

32.

Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

33.

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

34.

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

35.

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

36.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

37.

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

Digest, Readers

38.

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

Proverb, Spanish

39.

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

Bourne, Randolph S.

40.

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.

41.

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

42.

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.

43.

No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

44.

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

45.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

46.

Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

47.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

48.

There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

49.

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

50.

Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish