Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Aristotle

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Hazlitt, William

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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

Proverb

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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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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

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

Proverb, Russian

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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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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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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

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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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

Terence

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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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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

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome