Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

A good friend is my nearest relation.

- Fuller, Thomas

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Augustine, St.

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

10.

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

11.

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.

12.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

13.

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

14.

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

Randolf, G.

15.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

16.

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

17.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

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.

19.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

20.

You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

21.

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

22.

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

23.

These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Pepys, Samuel

27.

A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

28.

Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

29.

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

30.

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

31.

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

32.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

33.

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

Walker, Alice

34.

You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

35.

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

37.

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

38.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

40.

And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

41.

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

42.

The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

43.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

44.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

45.

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

Crane, Frank

46.

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

47.

In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

49.

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

50.

Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.