Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

- Addison, Joseph

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

May I always be worth of my friends.

Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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

Bach, Richard

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Branagh, Kenneth

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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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

Pepys, Samuel

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

Hitopadesa

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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

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Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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 friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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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

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

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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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

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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Crane, Frank

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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

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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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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.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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