Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Quarles, Francis

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

10.

Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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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

12.

Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

13.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

14.

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

15.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

16.

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

Mermet, Claude

17.

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

18.

Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

19.

A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

20.

Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

21.

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

Byrnes, James F.

22.

We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

23.

I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

24.

Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

25.

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

26.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

27.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

28.

The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

29.

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

30.

Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

31.

There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

32.

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

33.

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

34.

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

Piper, E. K.

35.

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

36.

These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

37.

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

38.

Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

39.

A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

40.

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

Aristotle

41.

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

42.

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

43.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

44.

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.