Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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

When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Bukowski, Charles

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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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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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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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

Augustine, St.

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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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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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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Billings, Josh

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

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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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The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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

Theocritus

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Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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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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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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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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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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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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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