Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

- Addison, Joseph

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

1.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

2.

Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

3.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

4.

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

Young, Brigham

5.

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

6.

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

7.

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

8.

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

Homer

9.

Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

10.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

11.

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

12.

You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

13.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

14.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

15.

A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

16.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

17.

Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

18.

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

19.

Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

20.

Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

21.

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

22.

Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

23.

Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

24.

Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

25.

Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

26.

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

Luther, Martin

27.

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

28.

We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

29.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

30.

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

31.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

32.

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

Theocritus

33.

May I always be worth of my friends.

34.

When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

35.

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

Ovid

36.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

37.

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

Fuller, Thomas

38.

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.

39.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

40.

Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

41.

The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

42.

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

43.

Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

44.

The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

45.

Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

46.

A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

47.

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

48.

Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

49.

Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

50.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon