Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

- Brodsky, Joseph

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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

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

Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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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 am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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

Bible

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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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

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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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

Quarles, Francis

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Mizner, Wilson

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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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

Chambers, Oswald

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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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

Fuller, Thomas

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The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Proverb, Jewish

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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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

Gabirol, Ibn