Motivational Quotes

Friendship

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

- George Washington

Best Quotes about Friendship

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. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

Jane Austen

You can forget a lot of things, but you cannot forget a womanÆs name and claim to love her.

Real Live Preacher

Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.

Thomas Jones

Sometimes the measure of friendship isn't your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for your own mistakes.

Randy K. Milholland

George Washington

There is nothing like the razor sharp tongue of a good friend to cut through the lies we tell ourselves.

Laura Moncur

Friends, in my experience, are like ladies'fashions. They come and go with the seasons, and are rarely of such stout stuff as bears repeated wearing.

Stephanie Barron

The only thing that lasts longer than a friend's love is the stupidity that keeps us from knowing any better.

Randy K. Milholland

10.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

11.

Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

12.

A good friend of my son's is a son to me.

Lois McMaster Bujold

13.

I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.

Oscar Wilde

14.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Samuel Johnson

15.

My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.

Dame Edna Everage

16.

True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Joseph Addison

17.

To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship.

Sallust

18.

The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.

Cicero

19.

If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.

Lois McMaster Bujold

20.

Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.

Georgia O'Keeffe

21.

There isnÆt much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you arenÆt really living without it.

Real Live Preacher

22.

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.

Ali ibn-Abi-Talib

23.

All people want is someone to listen.

Hugh Elliott

24.

Have no friends not equal to yourself.

Confucius

25.

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

Saint Jerome

26.

When someone allows you to bear his burdens, you have found deep friendship.

Real Live Preacher

27.

Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.

Jay Leno

28.

A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.

Arthur Brisbane

29.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Aristotle

30.

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.

Colette

31.

Friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.

David Nicholls

32.

Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.

Czech Proverb

33.

You donÆt get to pick your own nickname. TheyÆve gotta give you one. ItÆs like weÆre all tryinÆ to make pets out of each other and weÆre not comfortable unless we get to name æem.

Laura Moncur

34.

It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.

Lawana Blackwell

35.

We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.

Thucydides

36.

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

Publilius Syrus

37.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Dale Carnegie

38.

ItÆs the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter.

Marlene Dietrich

39.

We are advertis'd by our loving friends.

William Shakespeare

40.

The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.

Pierre Charron

41.

It's a lot like nature. You only have as many animals as the ecosystem can support and you only have as many friends as you can tolerate the bitching of.

Randy K. Milholland

42.

Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.

Madame de Tencin

43.

I've learned that all a person has in life is family and friends. If you lose those, you have nothing, so friends are to be treasured more than anything else in the world.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

44.

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.

John Churton Collins

45.

Being friendless taught me how to be a friend. Funny how that works.

Colleen Wainwright

46.

Friendship is being there when someone's feeling low and not being afraid to kick them.

Randy K. Milholland

47.

Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.

Thomas Fuller

48.

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

Rebecca West

49.

When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.

Japanese Proverb

50.

You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust.

David Shore