Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

We die as often as we lose a friend.

- Syrus, Publilius

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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.

4.

Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

5.

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

6.

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

Proverb, English

7.

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

Bible

8.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

9.

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

10.

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

11.

You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

12.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

13.

Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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.

Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

16.

Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

17.

In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

18.

The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

19.

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

Proverb, Chinese

20.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

22.

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

23.

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

Lamb, Charles

24.

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

Proverb, Arabian

25.

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

26.

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

Swift, Jonathan

27.

Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

28.

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

29.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

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

Joubert, Joseph

31.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

32.

Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

33.

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

34.

Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

35.

Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

36.

Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

37.

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

38.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

39.

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

40.

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.

41.

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

42.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

43.

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

44.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

45.

Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

46.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

47.

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

Augustine, St.

48.

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

Billings, Josh

49.

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