Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

- Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Mermet, Claude

Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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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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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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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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It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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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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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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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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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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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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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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

Mizner, Wilson

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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

Pythagoras

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

Crane, Frank

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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

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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

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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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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