Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

1.

Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

2.

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

Hitopadesa

3.

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

4.

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

Byrnes, James F.

5.

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

6.

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

Fuller, Thomas

7.

Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

8.

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

Fuller, Thomas

9.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

10.

... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

11.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

13.

It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

14.

Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

15.

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

Ustinov, Peter

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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

17.

If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

18.

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

19.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

20.

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

Proverb, Spanish

21.

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

22.

Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

23.

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

24.

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

Aristotle

25.

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

26.

Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

27.

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

28.

There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

29.

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

Proverb, Russian

30.

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

Crane, Frank

31.

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

32.

You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

33.

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

Hazlitt, William

34.

In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

35.

I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

36.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

37.

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

Santayana, George

38.

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

Python, Monty

39.

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

40.

And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

41.

Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

42.

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

43.

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

Homer

44.

We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

45.

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

46.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

47.

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

Young, Brigham

48.

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

49.

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

Winchell, Walter

50.

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.