Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

- Kennedy, Eugene

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Joubert, Joseph

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

10.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

11.

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

FeNelon, Francois

12.

To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

13.

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

Proverb, Indian

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

17.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

18.

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

Bennett, Arnold

19.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

20.

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

21.

He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

22.

I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

23.

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

24.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

25.

It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

26.

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

27.

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

Hazlitt, William

28.

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

Proverb, Jewish

29.

Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

30.

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

31.

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

32.

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

33.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

34.

A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

35.

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

36.

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

Dickens, Charles

37.

I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

38.

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

39.

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

40.

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

41.

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

42.

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

43.

Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

44.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

45.

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

46.

A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

47.

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

48.

Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

49.

The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

50.

As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid