Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

- Billings, Josh

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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

To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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

Bible

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Buscaglia, Leo

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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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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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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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Gay, John

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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Larson, Doug

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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

Proverb

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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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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.

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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

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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.