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

Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

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

Augustine, St.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

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

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

Proverb

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

Addison, Joseph

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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

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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Auden, W. H.

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

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

Santayana, George

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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

Proverb, Indian

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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Joubert, Joseph

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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 to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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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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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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

Digest, Readers

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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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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

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank