Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Auden, W. H.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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

Edwards, Robert C.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

Make friends before you need them

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

Hitopadesa

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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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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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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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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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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Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Auden, W. H.

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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

Gay, John

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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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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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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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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

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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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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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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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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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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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

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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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Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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