Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

- Stevenson, Robert Louis

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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

If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

10.

Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

11.

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

12.

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

13.

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

14.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

16.

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

17.

Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

18.

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

19.

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

20.

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

21.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

22.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

23.

To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

24.

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

Bach, Richard

25.

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

26.

We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

27.

A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

28.

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

Godospeed, Edgar

29.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

30.

Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

31.

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

Branagh, Kenneth

32.

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

33.

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

34.

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

35.

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

36.

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

37.

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.

38.

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

Wycherley, William

39.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

40.

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

Yeats, William Butler

41.

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

Proverb, Spanish

42.

But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

43.

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

Santayana, George

44.

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

45.

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

46.

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

47.

A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

48.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

49.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

50.

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.