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

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

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

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

10.

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

Young, Brigham

11.

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

12.

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

Augustine, St.

13.

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

14.

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

15.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Branagh, Kenneth

19.

We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

20.

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

21.

Make friends before you need them

22.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

23.

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

24.

Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

25.

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

26.

Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

27.

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

28.

With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

29.

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

30.

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

Byrnes, James F.

31.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

32.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

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

34.

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

Seneca

35.

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

Lamb, Charles

36.

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

37.

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

38.

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

Swift, Jonathan

39.

Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

40.

To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

41.

A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

45.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

46.

Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

47.

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

Crane, Frank

48.

A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

49.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

50.

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