Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

- Gracian, Baltasar

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

10.

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

Pepys, Samuel

11.

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

12.

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

13.

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

14.

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

15.

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

16.

Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

17.

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

18.

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

19.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

20.

Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

21.

It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

22.

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

23.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

24.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

25.

A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

26.

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

Johnson, Samuel

27.

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

28.

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

Blake, William

29.

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

Proverb, Jewish

30.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

31.

There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

32.

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

33.

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

34.

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

35.

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

36.

Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

37.

Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

38.

Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

39.

There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

40.

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

41.

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

42.

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

43.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

44.

There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

45.

Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

46.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

47.

I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

48.

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

49.

Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

50.

I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William