Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Proverb, Russian

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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

O'Malley, Austin

The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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.

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

10.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

11.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

12.

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

13.

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

14.

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

15.

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

White, Somers

16.

Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

17.

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

18.

Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

19.

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

20.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

21.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

22.

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

Crane, Frank

23.

Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

24.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

25.

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

Sallust

26.

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

29.

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

Homer

30.

Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

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

32.

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.

33.

Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

34.

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

35.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

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

Hazlip, E.R.

37.

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

38.

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

Bourne, Randolph S.

39.

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

40.

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

Tate, Nahum

41.

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

42.

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

43.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

44.

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

45.

In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

46.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Powell, John Enoch

50.

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