Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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

10.

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

Talmud, The

11.

Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

12.

A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

13.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

14.

Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

15.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

16.

In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

17.

Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

18.

There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

19.

The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

21.

Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

22.

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

23.

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

24.

How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

25.

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

26.

I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

27.

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

Sallust

28.

Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

29.

Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

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.

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

32.

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

33.

Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

34.

Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

35.

Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

36.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

37.

And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

38.

Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

39.

Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

40.

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

41.

A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

43.

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

44.

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

Tate, Nahum

45.

Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

46.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

47.

There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

48.

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

49.

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

50.

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