Motivational Quotes

Friendship

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

- Madame de Tencin

Best Quotes about Friendship

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

Japanese Proverb

The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.

Cicero

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

Have no friends not equal to yourself.

Confucius

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

Jane Austen

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

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

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

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

10.

Friends have all things in common.

Plato

11.

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

Lawana Blackwell

12.

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

13.

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

Walt Whitman

14.

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

Real Live Preacher

15.

Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.

Thomas Jones

16.

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

Real Live Preacher

17.

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

Czech Proverb

18.

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

Colleen Wainwright

19.

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

Saint Jerome

20.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

21.

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

Oscar Wilde

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.

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

Madame de Tencin

24.

Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

Cicero

25.

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

Sallust

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Adversity does teach who your real friends are.

Lois McMaster Bujold

30.

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

Laura Moncur

31.

All people want is someone to listen.

Hugh Elliott

32.

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

Publilius Syrus

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.

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

35.

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

David Nicholls

36.

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.

37.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

38.

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

39.

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

Randy K. Milholland

40.

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

41.

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

Thucydides

42.

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

43.

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

Marlene Dietrich

44.

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

Randy K. Milholland

45.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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.