Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

- Talmud, The

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Digest, Readers

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

Proverb, Sicilian

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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

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

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

10.

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

Jerome, St.

11.

Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

12.

From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

13.

Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

14.

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

15.

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

16.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

17.

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

18.

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

Ustinov, Peter

19.

Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

20.

May I always be worth of my friends.

21.

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

22.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

23.

That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

24.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

26.

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

27.

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

28.

There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

29.

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

30.

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

31.

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

32.

It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

33.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

34.

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.

35.

The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

36.

Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

37.

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

Johnson, Samuel

38.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

39.

If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

40.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

41.

... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

42.

You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

43.

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

44.

Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

45.

Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

46.

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

Billings, Josh

47.

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

48.

Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

49.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

50.

There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.