Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

- Aquinas, St. Thomas

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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

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

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

10.

In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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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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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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

Crane, Frank

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

Theocritus

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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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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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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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

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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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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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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von