Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

- Bourne, Randolph S.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Proverb, Sicilian

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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

Python, Monty

A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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

Uris, Leon

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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Swift, Jonathan

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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Jerome, St.

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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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

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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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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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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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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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Proverb, Jewish