Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

1.

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

2.

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

Billings, Josh

3.

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

4.

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

5.

To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

6.

All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

7.

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

8.

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

9.

Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

10.

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

11.

A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

12.

The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

13.

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

Luther, Martin

14.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

15.

A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

16.

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

Mizner, Wilson

17.

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.

18.

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

19.

Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

20.

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.

21.

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

22.

The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

23.

As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

24.

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

25.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

26.

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

Bible

27.

Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

28.

Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

29.

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

30.

Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

31.

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

32.

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

33.

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

34.

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

Aristotle

35.

I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

36.

A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

37.

Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

38.

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

39.

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

40.

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

41.

Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

42.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

43.

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

44.

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

Pythagoras

45.

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

46.

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

47.

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

48.

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

49.

Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

50.

Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek