Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Python, Monty

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Proverb, Jewish

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Sallust

15.

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

Budgell, Eustace

16.

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

18.

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

19.

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

Godospeed, Edgar

20.

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

21.

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

22.

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

Proverb

23.

But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

24.

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

25.

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

26.

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

27.

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

28.

Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

29.

To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

30.

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

Terence

31.

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

32.

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

Digest, Readers

33.

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

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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

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

Theocritus

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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

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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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

Auden, W. H.

39.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

43.

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

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

45.

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

Bukowski, Charles

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.