Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

- Auden, W. H.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Proverb, Russian

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Thackeray, William M.

Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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

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

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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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

Winchell, Walter

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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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

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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

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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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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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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

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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Wycherley, William

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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

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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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.

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

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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew