Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

- Yeats, William Butler

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

10.

Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

11.

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

Proverb

12.

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

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

Pepys, Samuel

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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

15.

I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

16.

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

18.

Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

19.

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

21.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

22.

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

Prentice, George D.

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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

25.

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

26.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

27.

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

28.

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

Talmud, The

29.

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

30.

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

31.

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

Sallust

32.

For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

33.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

34.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

35.

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

Homer

36.

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

37.

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

Rothschild, William E.

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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

39.

The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

40.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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

42.

Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

43.

We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

44.

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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

Quarles, Francis

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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

48.

When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

49.

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

50.

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis