Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

1.

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

2.

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

Proverb, Jewish

3.

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

4.

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

Piper, E. K.

5.

... 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

6.

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

Proverb

7.

The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

8.

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

Proverb, Chinese

9.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

10.

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

Fuller, Thomas

11.

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

12.

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

13.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

14.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

15.

And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

16.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

17.

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

18.

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

Pepys, Samuel

19.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

20.

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

21.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

22.

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

23.

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

24.

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

25.

There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

26.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

27.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

28.

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

Proverb

29.

What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

30.

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

Branagh, Kenneth

31.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

32.

A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

33.

Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

34.

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

35.

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

Proverb, Sicilian

36.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

37.

Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

38.

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

39.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

40.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

41.

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

42.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

43.

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

44.

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

Bible

45.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

46.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

47.

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

48.

I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

49.

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

50.

It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty