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

Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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

Epicurus

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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

To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

10.

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

Bukowski, Charles

11.

I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

12.

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

13.

I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

14.

Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

18.

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

19.

Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

20.

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

Hsieh, Tehyi

21.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

22.

I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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.

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

25.

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

Johnson, Samuel

26.

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

27.

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

28.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

29.

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

Auden, W. H.

30.

Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

31.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

32.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

34.

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

Proverb, Russian

35.

What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

36.

Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

37.

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.

38.

If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

39.

Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

40.

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

41.

He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

42.

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

Aristotle

43.

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

44.

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

Crane, Frank

45.

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

46.

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

Python, Monty

47.

You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

48.

Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

49.

The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

50.

To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David