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

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

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Bukowski, Charles

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

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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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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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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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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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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

Digest, Readers

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

Randolf, G.

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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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.

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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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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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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Aristotle

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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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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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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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

Bourne, Randolph S.

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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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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