Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

- Bible

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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

Aristotle

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.

Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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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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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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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Proverb

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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

22.

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

Hsieh, Tehyi

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A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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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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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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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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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

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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

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

Jerome, St.

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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

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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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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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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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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