Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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

Luther, Martin

A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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.

Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

11.

In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

12.

A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

13.

No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

14.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

21.

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

Thackeray, William M.

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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.

25.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

26.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

27.

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

Schulberg, Budd

28.

Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

29.

In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

30.

I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

32.

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

33.

When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

34.

Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

35.

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

36.

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

Proverb, Indian

37.

It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

38.

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

39.

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

40.

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

Bukowski, Charles

41.

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

42.

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

43.

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

Proverb

44.

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

45.

Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

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