Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

- Pratt, David

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Blake, William

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

Proverb, Russian

A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Randolf, G.

A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

10.

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

11.

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

12.

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

13.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

14.

A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

15.

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

Saying, Hasidic

16.

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

17.

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

18.

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

19.

Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

20.

To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

21.

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

Billings, Josh

22.

The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

23.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

25.

Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

26.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

27.

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

28.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

29.

Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

30.

A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

31.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

32.

Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

33.

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

34.

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

35.

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

Rothschild, William E.

36.

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

Crane, Frank

37.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

38.

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

Proverb, Sicilian

39.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

40.

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

41.

Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.