Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

- Twain, Mark

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Terence

2.

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

3.

A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

4.

For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

5.

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

6.

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

7.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

8.

Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

9.

Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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 multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

12.

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

13.

Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

14.

Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

15.

Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

16.

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

Budgell, Eustace

17.

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

18.

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

19.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

21.

In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

22.

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

23.

He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

24.

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

25.

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

Hazlitt, William

26.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

28.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

29.

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

Hazlip, E.R.

30.

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

31.

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

32.

You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

33.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

34.

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.