Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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

Walker, Alice

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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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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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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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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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

Proverb

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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

Quarles, Francis

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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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 faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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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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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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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.

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

Mizner, Wilson