Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

- Connolly, Cyril

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Jerome, St.

Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Schulberg, Budd

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

Homer

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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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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In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lee, Robert E.

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

Breton, Nicholas

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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Wycherley, William

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

Proverb, Sicilian

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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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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Young, Brigham

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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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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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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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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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A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Mizner, Wilson

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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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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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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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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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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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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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

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

Bible

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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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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