Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Blake, William

Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

10.

Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

11.

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

Woolf, Virginia

12.

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

13.

Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

14.

I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

15.

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

16.

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

Epicurus

17.

The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

18.

There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

19.

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

20.

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

21.

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

22.

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

23.

A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

24.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

25.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

26.

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

27.

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.

28.

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

Wycherley, William

29.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

30.

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

31.

Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

32.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

33.

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

Hitopadesa

34.

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

Young, Brigham

35.

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

36.

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

37.

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

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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.

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Franklin, Benjamin

40.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

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

42.

Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

43.

It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

44.

Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

45.

The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

46.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

47.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

48.

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

50.

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