Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

- Johnson, Samuel

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

1.

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

Piper, E. K.

2.

Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

3.

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

Jerome, St.

4.

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

5.

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

Aristotle

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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.

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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

8.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

9.

Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

10.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

11.

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

12.

Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

13.

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

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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

15.

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

Rothschild, William E.

16.

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

Hazlitt, William

17.

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

18.

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

Wein, Len

19.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

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

21.

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

22.

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

23.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

24.

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

25.

Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

26.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

27.

He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

28.

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

29.

A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

30.

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

Bible

31.

Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

32.

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

Hitopadesa

33.

Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

34.

There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

35.

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

36.

Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

38.

To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

39.

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

40.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

41.

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

42.

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

43.

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.

44.

In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

45.

Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

46.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

47.

Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

48.

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

Augustine, St.

49.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

50.

Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel