Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

- Dalai Lama

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

10.

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

11.

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

12.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

13.

I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

15.

Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

16.

For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

17.

Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

18.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

20.

Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

21.

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

22.

Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

26.

Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

27.

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

28.

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

Bennett, Arnold

29.

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

30.

It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

31.

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

Hitopadesa

32.

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

Bourne, Randolph S.

33.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

34.

I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

35.

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

Proverb, English

36.

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

37.

A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

38.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

39.

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

White, Somers

40.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

41.

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

42.

He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

43.

In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

44.

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

45.

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

46.

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.

47.

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

48.

When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

49.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

50.

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.