Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

- Proverb, Nigerian

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

1.

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

2.

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

3.

To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

4.

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

5.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

6.

A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

7.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

8.

The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

9.

Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

10.

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

11.

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

12.

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

Bible

13.

Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

14.

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

15.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

16.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

17.

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.

18.

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

Breton, Nicholas

19.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

20.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

21.

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

22.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

23.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

25.

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

Jerome, St.

26.

Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

27.

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

28.

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

Crane, Frank

29.

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.

30.

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

31.

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

Mizner, Wilson

32.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

33.

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

Hsieh, Tehyi

34.

Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

35.

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

36.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

37.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

38.

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

39.

God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

40.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

41.

Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

42.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

43.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

44.

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

Billings, Josh

45.

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

46.

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

Proverb, Sicilian

47.

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

Homer

48.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

49.

Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

50.

Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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