Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

- Digest, Readers

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

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

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

Toast, Irish

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

In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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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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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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

Aristotle

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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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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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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

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Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

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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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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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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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

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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

30.

You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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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

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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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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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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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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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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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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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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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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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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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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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

Wycherley, William

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian