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

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

Edwards, Robert C.

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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

When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Bach, Richard

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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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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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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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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Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

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Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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

Jerome, St.

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

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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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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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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Toast, Irish

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

Proverb

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

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

Aristotle

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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

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

Bukowski, Charles

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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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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas