Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

- Gibran, Kahlil

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Proverb

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

10.

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

11.

Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

12.

Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

13.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

15.

Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

16.

... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

17.

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

18.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

19.

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

Augustine, St.

20.

We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

21.

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

Bach, Richard

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Walker, Alice

25.

However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

26.

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

27.

In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

28.

Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

29.

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

Bible

30.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

31.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

32.

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

33.

May I always be worth of my friends.

34.

To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

35.

But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

36.

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

37.

A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

38.

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

Wein, Len

39.

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

Proverb, Indian

40.

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

Hazlitt, William

41.

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

42.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

43.

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

44.

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

45.

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

46.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

47.

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

48.

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

Crane, Frank

49.

Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

50.

Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas