Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

- Yogananda, Paramahansa

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

1.

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

Digest, Readers

2.

Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

3.

A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

4.

Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

5.

It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

6.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

7.

Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

8.

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

Hazlitt, William

9.

Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

10.

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

11.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

12.

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

13.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

14.

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

15.

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.

16.

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

17.

Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

18.

Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

19.

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

Godospeed, Edgar

20.

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

Hazlip, E.R.

21.

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

22.

If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

23.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

24.

Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

25.

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

Pythagoras

26.

Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

27.

Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

28.

Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

29.

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

30.

He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

31.

Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

32.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

36.

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

Aristotle

37.

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

Mizner, Wilson

38.

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

39.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

40.

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

Jerome, St.

41.

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.

42.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

43.

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

44.

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

45.

Make friends before you need them