Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

- Bacon, Francis

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

2.

Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

3.

God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

4.

In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

5.

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

Addison, Joseph

6.

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

7.

Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

8.

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

9.

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

10.

Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

11.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

12.

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

13.

I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

15.

Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

17.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

18.

There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

19.

May I always be worth of my friends.

20.

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

21.

What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

22.

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

23.

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

24.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

25.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

26.

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

Johnson, Samuel

27.

You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

28.

Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

29.

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

Proverb, English

30.

Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

31.

Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

32.

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

33.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

34.

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

35.

We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

36.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

38.

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

Chambers, Oswald

39.

Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

40.

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

Rothschild, William E.

41.

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

42.

Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

43.

These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

44.

In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

45.

Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

46.

In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

47.

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

Pepys, Samuel

48.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

49.

It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William