Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

- Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

1.

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

2.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

3.

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

4.

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

Branagh, Kenneth

5.

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

Aristotle

6.

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

Yeats, William Butler

7.

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

Woolf, Virginia

8.

If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

9.

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

10.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

11.

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

12.

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

13.

You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

14.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

15.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

16.

Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

17.

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

Santayana, George

18.

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.

19.

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

20.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

22.

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

23.

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

24.

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

Aristotle

25.

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

Proverb, Russian

26.

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

Lamb, Charles

27.

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

28.

Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

29.

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

Godospeed, Edgar

30.

Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

32.

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

33.

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

34.

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

35.

To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

36.

A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

37.

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

Ustinov, Peter

38.

In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

40.

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

41.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

42.

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

Hazlip, E.R.

43.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

44.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

45.

Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

46.

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

47.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

48.

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

49.

There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

50.

We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess