Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

- Proverb, Sicilian

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

1.

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

Homer

2.

I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

3.

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

Seneca

4.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

5.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

6.

We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

7.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

8.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

9.

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

Piper, E. K.

10.

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

11.

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

13.

Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

14.

If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

15.

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

Jerome, St.

16.

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

17.

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

18.

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

19.

Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

20.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

22.

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

23.

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

24.

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

Bible

25.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

26.

Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

27.

In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

28.

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

Augustine, St.

29.

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

30.

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

31.

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

32.

Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

33.

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

Prentice, George D.

34.

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

35.

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

Epicurus

36.

Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

37.

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

Proverb, Russian

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

41.

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

42.

If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

43.

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.

44.

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

Aristotle

45.

The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

46.

I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

47.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

48.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

49.

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

50.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John