Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Ustinov, Peter

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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

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

The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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

Hsieh, Tehyi

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

11.

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

12.

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

13.

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

14.

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

Jerome, St.

15.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

16.

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

Billings, Josh

17.

If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

18.

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

Pepys, Samuel

19.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

21.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

22.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

23.

You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

24.

Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

25.

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

26.

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

Sallust

27.

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

Augustine, St.

28.

A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

29.

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

30.

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

31.

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

32.

Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

33.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

34.

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

Proverb, English

35.

Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

36.

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

37.

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

38.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

39.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

40.

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

41.

In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

42.

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

43.

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

44.

Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

45.

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

46.

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

47.

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.

48.

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

49.

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

50.

A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl