Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

- Addison, Joseph

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Fuller, Thomas

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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

Gibran, Kahlil

It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Bach, Richard

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

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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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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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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

Auden, W. H.

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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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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

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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

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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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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

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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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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

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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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There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

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

Rothschild, William E.

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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

Ovid

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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

35.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Proverb

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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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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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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.

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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

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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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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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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

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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

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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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