Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

- Ruskin, John

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

1.

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

2.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

3.

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

4.

A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

6.

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

Python, Monty

7.

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

8.

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

9.

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

Winchell, Walter

10.

Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

11.

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

12.

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

13.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

14.

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

15.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

16.

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

17.

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.

18.

Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

19.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

20.

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

21.

He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

22.

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

23.

From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

24.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

25.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

27.

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

28.

Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

29.

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

30.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

32.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

33.

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

34.

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.

35.

It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

36.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

37.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

38.

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

39.

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

40.

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

Mizner, Wilson

41.

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.

42.

In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

43.

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

44.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

46.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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