Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

- Belloc, Hilaire

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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

Gay, John

Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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.

A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Piper, E. K.

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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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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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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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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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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

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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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

Python, Monty

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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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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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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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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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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Proverb, Arabian

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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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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 hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor