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

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

Woolf, Virginia

In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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

Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

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

Schulberg, Budd

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wycherley, William

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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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

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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

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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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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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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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The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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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

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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

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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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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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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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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Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers