Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

- Richter, Jean Paul

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

1.

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

2.

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

3.

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

4.

Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

5.

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

Mizner, Wilson

6.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

7.

He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

8.

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.

9.

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

10.

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

11.

Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

12.

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

13.

In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

14.

The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

15.

Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

16.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

17.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

18.

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

19.

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

Crane, Frank

20.

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

21.

I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

22.

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

23.

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

24.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

25.

There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

27.

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

28.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

29.

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

30.

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

31.

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

32.

Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

33.

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

Proverb, Russian

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

38.

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

39.

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

40.

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

41.

He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

42.

In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

44.

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

45.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

46.

Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

47.

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

Hsieh, Tehyi

48.

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

49.

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

50.

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van