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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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

Branagh, Kenneth

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

Breton, Nicholas

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

May I always be worth of my friends.

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

10.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

11.

Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

12.

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

Digest, Readers

13.

Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

14.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

15.

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

16.

Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

17.

Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

18.

I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

19.

Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

20.

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Perry, Ralph B.

25.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

26.

What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

27.

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

28.

Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

29.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

30.

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

31.

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

Rothschild, William E.

32.

We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

33.

The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

34.

To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

35.

If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

36.

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

37.

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

Fuller, Thomas

38.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

39.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

40.

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

41.

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.

42.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

43.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

44.

Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

45.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

46.

Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

47.

Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

48.

Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

49.

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

50.

Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.