Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

1.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

2.

Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

3.

From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

4.

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

5.

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

6.

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

7.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

8.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

9.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

10.

Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

11.

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

12.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

14.

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

15.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

16.

Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

17.

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

18.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

19.

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

Blake, William

20.

Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

21.

A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

22.

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

23.

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

24.

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

Breton, Nicholas

25.

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

26.

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

27.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

28.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

29.

If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

30.

Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

31.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

32.

All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

33.

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

34.

A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.