Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- La Fontaine, Jean De

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

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Wycherley, William

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

Buscaglia, Leo

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Johnson, Samuel

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

10.

Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

11.

Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

12.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

13.

Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

14.

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

Proverb, English

15.

A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

16.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

17.

Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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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.

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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

20.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

21.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

22.

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

23.

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

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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.

25.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

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

27.

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

28.

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

29.

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

30.

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

31.

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

32.

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

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The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

34.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

35.

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

36.

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

37.

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

Woolf, Virginia

38.

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.

39.

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

Proverb, Jewish

40.

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

41.

Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

42.

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

43.

Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

44.

No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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.

46.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

47.

If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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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

49.

Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

50.

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William