Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Ones oldest friend is the best.

- Plautus, Titus Maccius

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

1.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

2.

Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

3.

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

4.

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

Storey, David

5.

Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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.

A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

8.

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

Rothschild, William E.

9.

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

Proverb, Indian

10.

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

11.

Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

12.

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

13.

When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

14.

Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

15.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

16.

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

Johnson, Samuel

17.

Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

18.

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

19.

Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

20.

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

Proverb, Jewish

21.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

22.

It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

23.

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

24.

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

25.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

26.

If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

27.

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

Proverb

28.

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

Bennett, Arnold

29.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

33.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

34.

Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

35.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

36.

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

37.

Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

38.

Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

39.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

40.

A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

41.

When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

42.

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

43.

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

44.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

45.

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

46.

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

47.

One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

48.

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

49.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

50.

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug