Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

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

Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

10.

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

11.

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

12.

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

Young, Brigham

13.

I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

14.

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

Bible

15.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

16.

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

17.

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

Pepys, Samuel

18.

Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

19.

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

Hsieh, Tehyi

20.

Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

21.

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

Proverb, Chinese

22.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

23.

Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

24.

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.

25.

Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

26.

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

27.

Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

28.

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

Joubert, Joseph

29.

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

30.

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

Breton, Nicholas

31.

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

32.

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

33.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

34.

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

35.

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

Rothschild, William E.

36.

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

Quarles, Francis

37.

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

Ustinov, Peter

38.

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

Proverb, Jewish

39.

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

40.

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

41.

There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

42.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

43.

A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

44.

... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

45.

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

46.

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

47.

A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

48.

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

Jerome, St.