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

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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 should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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

Perry, Ralph B.

Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Crane, Frank

We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

10.

Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

11.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

12.

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

Homer

13.

When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

14.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

15.

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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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All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

21.

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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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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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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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

28.

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

29.

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

30.

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Randolf, G.

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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Talmud, The

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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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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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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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Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish