Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

- Swift, Jonathan

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Crane, Frank

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

Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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.

10.

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

11.

Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

15.

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

16.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

17.

All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

18.

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

19.

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

Proverb, Jewish

20.

There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

21.

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

22.

Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

23.

Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

24.

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

26.

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

27.

Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

28.

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

29.

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

Ustinov, Peter

30.

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

Fuller, Thomas

31.

Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

32.

He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

33.

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

34.

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

Branagh, Kenneth

35.

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

36.

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

37.

Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

38.

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

Proverb, Russian

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