Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

- Bacon, Francis

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Gibran, Kahlil

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Lee, Robert E.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

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

Proverb, Russian

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Aristotle

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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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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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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

Terence

21.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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

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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

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All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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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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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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The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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

Bach, Richard

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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas