Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

- Bennett, Arnold

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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

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

Auden, W. H.

A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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

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

Bible

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

Walker, Alice

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

13.

But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

14.

If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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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.

21.

There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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

Proverb, Jewish

28.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

35.

Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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

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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

42.

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

43.

A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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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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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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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita