Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

- Breton, Nicholas

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

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

Talmud, The

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Branagh, Kenneth

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

Swift, Jonathan

The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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

Bible

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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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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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

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Bible

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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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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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

Epicurus

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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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

40.

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

43.

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

50.

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