Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Byrnes, James F.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

1.

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

2.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

3.

For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

4.

It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

5.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

6.

A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

7.

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

8.

Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

9.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

10.

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

Pepys, Samuel

11.

A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

12.

Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

13.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

14.

He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

15.

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

16.

Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

17.

The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

18.

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

19.

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

Bach, Richard

20.

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

Digest, Readers

21.

The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

23.

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

Quarles, Francis

24.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

26.

Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

27.

And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

28.

A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

29.

Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

30.

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

Powell, John Enoch

31.

We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

32.

I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

33.

Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

34.

Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

35.

Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

36.

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

37.

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

38.

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

39.

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

Ovid

40.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

41.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

42.

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

43.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

44.

A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

45.

Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

46.

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

47.

Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

48.

There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

49.

Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

50.

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

Luther, Martin