Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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

Ovid

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

Proverb, English

Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

May I always be worth of my friends.

10.

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

Fuller, Thomas

11.

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

12.

All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

13.

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

14.

Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

15.

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.

16.

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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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

18.

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

19.

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

Toast, Irish

20.

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

21.

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

22.

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

24.

To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

25.

Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

26.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

27.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

28.

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.

29.

Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

30.

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

Branagh, Kenneth

31.

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

Sallust

32.

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

Luther, Martin

33.

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

34.

Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

35.

Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

36.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

37.

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

Quarles, Francis

38.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

39.

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

40.

There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

41.

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

42.

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

43.

A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

44.

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

Proverb, Indian

45.

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

46.

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

47.

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

48.

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

49.

He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

50.

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

Rothschild, William E.