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

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Johnson, Samuel

Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Aristotle

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

10.

A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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

Hitopadesa

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

Hazlitt, William

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

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Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

32.

Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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

Crane, Frank

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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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

39.

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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

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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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

Yeats, William Butler

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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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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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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil