Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

- Saying, Jewish

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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

Seneca

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

Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

10.

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

11.

You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

12.

Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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

Edwards, Robert C.

14.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

15.

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

Proverb, Chinese

16.

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

17.

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

18.

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

19.

Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

20.

Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

21.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

22.

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

23.

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

Aristotle

24.

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

25.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

26.

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

30.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

31.

Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

32.

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.

33.

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Thackeray, William M.

36.

Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

38.

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

Epicurus

39.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

40.

Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

41.

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

42.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

43.

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

Proverb, Indian

44.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

45.

But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Crane, Frank

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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.