Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

10.

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

11.

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

Branagh, Kenneth

12.

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

13.

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

14.

We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

15.

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

Johnson, Samuel

16.

We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

17.

Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

18.

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

19.

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

Crane, Frank

20.

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

21.

The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

22.

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.

23.

Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

24.

Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

25.

Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

26.

In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

27.

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

33.

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

34.

It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

35.

A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

36.

A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

37.

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

39.

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

40.

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

Schulberg, Budd

41.

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

Ovid

42.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

43.

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

Proverb, English

44.

There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

45.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

47.

Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

48.

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

49.

The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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

Hsieh, Tehyi