Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

- Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Pythagoras

Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

14.

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

Proverb, Jewish

16.

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

Augustine, St.

17.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

18.

A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

20.

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

21.

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

Chambers, Oswald

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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

24.

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

Byron, Lord

26.

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

28.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

29.

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

30.

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

Aristotle

31.

Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

32.

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

33.

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.

34.

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

Powell, John Enoch

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

Woolf, Virginia

39.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

40.

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

41.

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

Wycherley, William

42.

There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

43.

A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

44.

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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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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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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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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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.