Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

- Francis De Sales, St.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

1.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

2.

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

3.

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

4.

Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

5.

Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

6.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

7.

A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

8.

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

9.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

10.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

11.

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

12.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

13.

We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

14.

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

15.

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

16.

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

Blake, William

17.

It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

18.

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

19.

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

20.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

21.

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

22.

It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

23.

Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

24.

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

25.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

26.

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

27.

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

28.

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

Johnson, Samuel

29.

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

30.

The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

31.

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

Wycherley, William

32.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

33.

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

34.

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

35.

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

Crane, Frank

36.

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

Mermet, Claude

37.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

39.

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

40.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

41.

Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

42.

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

43.

Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

44.

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

45.

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

46.

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