Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

1.

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

2.

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

3.

We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

4.

Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

5.

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

Mermet, Claude

6.

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

7.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

8.

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

9.

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

Joubert, Joseph

10.

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

11.

I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

12.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

13.

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

14.

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

O'Malley, Austin

15.

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.

16.

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

17.

Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

18.

Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

19.

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

20.

A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

21.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

22.

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

Crane, Frank

23.

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.

24.

A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

25.

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

26.

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

Proverb, Russian

27.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

28.

Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

29.

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

White, Somers

30.

Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

31.

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

33.

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

34.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

35.

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

36.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

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

Proverb, Russian

38.

Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

39.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

40.

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

41.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

42.

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

43.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

44.

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.

45.

The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

46.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

47.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

48.

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

Johnson, Samuel

49.

Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

50.

What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius