Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

- Jefferson, Thomas

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

1.

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

Augustine, St.

2.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

3.

Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

4.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

5.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

6.

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

7.

Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

8.

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

9.

To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

10.

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

O'Malley, Austin

11.

A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

12.

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

13.

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

14.

There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

15.

Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

16.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

17.

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

18.

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

19.

The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

20.

For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

21.

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

22.

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

23.

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

Proverb, Spanish

24.

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

25.

There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

26.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

27.

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

28.

Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

29.

It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

30.

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

31.

You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

32.

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

33.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

34.

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

35.

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

Proverb, English

36.

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

Byron, Lord

37.

A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

38.

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

Proverb, Russian

39.

Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

40.

A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

42.

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

43.

Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

44.

In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

45.

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

46.

I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

47.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

48.

Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

49.

Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

50.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur