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

Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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

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

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

A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Pepys, Samuel

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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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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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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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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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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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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Larson, Doug

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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

Proverb

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Jewish

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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone