Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

- Burleigh, Lord

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Hitopadesa

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

Ebers, George

We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

10.

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

11.

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

12.

Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

13.

There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

14.

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

16.

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

17.

I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

18.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

19.

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

20.

Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

21.

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

Proverb, Sicilian

22.

A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

23.

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

24.

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

25.

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

26.

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

27.

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

28.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

29.

A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

30.

Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

32.

Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

33.

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

34.

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

35.

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

36.

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

37.

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

38.

Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

39.

A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

40.

Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

41.

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

42.

We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

43.

Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

44.

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

45.

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

46.

Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

47.

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

Digest, Readers

48.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

49.

The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

50.

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