Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

- Lincoln, Abraham

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

1.

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

Aristotle

2.

Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

3.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

4.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

5.

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

Branagh, Kenneth

6.

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

Ebers, George

7.

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

8.

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

Rothschild, William E.

9.

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

10.

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

11.

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

12.

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.

13.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

14.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

15.

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

16.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

17.

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

18.

May I always be worth of my friends.

19.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

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

21.

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

22.

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

Schulberg, Budd

23.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

25.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

26.

The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

27.

Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

28.

Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

29.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

30.

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

Gay, John

31.

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

32.

As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

33.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

34.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

35.

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

36.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

37.

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

38.

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

Talmud, The

39.

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

Fuller, Thomas

40.

Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

41.

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

42.

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

43.

Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

44.

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

45.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

46.

I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

47.

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

48.

Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

49.

The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

50.

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