Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

- Washington, George

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

2.

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

Joubert, Joseph

3.

Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

4.

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

Talmud, The

5.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

6.

Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

7.

In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

8.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

9.

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

Bennett, Arnold

10.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

11.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

12.

A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

13.

The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

14.

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

15.

Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

16.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

17.

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

18.

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

19.

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

20.

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

21.

Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

22.

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

Epicurus

23.

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

24.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

25.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

26.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

27.

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

Bourne, Randolph S.

28.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

29.

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

30.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

31.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

32.

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

Python, Monty

33.

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

Proverb, Indian

34.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

35.

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

36.

A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

37.

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

38.

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

39.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

40.

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

41.

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

Rothschild, William E.

42.

Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

43.

Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

44.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

45.

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

Santayana, George

46.

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

Byrnes, James F.