Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Euripides

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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

Meltzer, Bernard

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

10.

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

11.

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

Bible

12.

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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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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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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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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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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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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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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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

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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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Fuller, Thomas

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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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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

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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

37.

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

Crane, Frank

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

Talmud, The

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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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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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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

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

Proverb, Jewish

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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil