Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

- Lincoln, Abraham

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

1.

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

2.

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

3.

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

4.

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

Mermet, Claude

5.

Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

6.

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

7.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

8.

Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

9.

In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

10.

Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

11.

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

12.

You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

13.

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

14.

Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

15.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

19.

He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

20.

A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

21.

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

Augustine, St.

22.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

23.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

24.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

25.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

26.

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

Jerome, St.

27.

Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

28.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

29.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

30.

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

31.

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

32.

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

33.

And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

34.

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

35.

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

Homer

36.

Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

37.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

38.

From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

39.

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

40.

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

Terence

41.

Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

42.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

43.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

44.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

45.

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

46.

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

47.

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

48.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

49.

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust