Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Young, Brigham

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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.

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

Storey, David

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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

10.

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

11.

I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

12.

Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

13.

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

Theocritus

14.

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

15.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

16.

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

17.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

18.

Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

19.

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

Walker, Alice

20.

That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

25.

No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

26.

Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

27.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

29.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

30.

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

31.

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

32.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

33.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

34.

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

35.

There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

36.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

37.

The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

38.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

39.

He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

40.

I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

41.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

42.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

43.

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

Ovid

44.

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

45.

Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.