Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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

Proverb, Chinese

10.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

11.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

12.

If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

13.

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

14.

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

15.

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

16.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

17.

A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

18.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

19.

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

20.

If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

21.

In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

23.

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

Breton, Nicholas

24.

Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

25.

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

Proverb, Spanish

26.

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

27.

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

Pepys, Samuel

28.

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

29.

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

Proverb, Russian

30.

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

Ustinov, Peter

31.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

32.

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

Randolf, G.

33.

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

34.

The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

35.

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

36.

How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

37.

There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

38.

Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

40.

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

41.

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

42.

A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

43.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

44.

The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

45.

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

Toast, Irish

46.

The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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

48.

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.

49.

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

50.

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William