Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

- Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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

Perry, Ralph B.

A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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.

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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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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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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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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

Augustine, St.

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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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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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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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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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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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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 friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Proverb, Russian

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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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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.