Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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

Hitopadesa

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

A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

10.

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

Addison, Joseph

11.

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.

12.

Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

13.

It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

14.

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

Ustinov, Peter

15.

Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

16.

If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

17.

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

18.

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

Proverb, English

19.

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

Edwards, Robert C.

20.

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

21.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

22.

Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

23.

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.

24.

There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

25.

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

26.

A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

27.

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

28.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

29.

An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

30.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

31.

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

32.

Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

33.

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

Bach, Richard

34.

Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

35.

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

Branagh, Kenneth

36.

He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

37.

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

38.

Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

39.

If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

40.

Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

41.

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

42.

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

Theocritus

43.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

44.

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

45.

Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

46.

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

47.

No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

48.

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

49.

There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

50.

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

Auden, W. H.