Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

- Byron, Lord

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Augustine, St.

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

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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

Jerome, St.

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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Randolf, G.

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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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

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Proverb

25.

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

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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

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

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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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

Mizner, Wilson

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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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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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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

Chambers, Oswald

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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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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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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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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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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

50.

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

Python, Monty