Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Talmud, The

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Wycherley, William

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

Swift, Jonathan

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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

Breton, Nicholas

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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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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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Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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

Mizner, Wilson

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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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

Euripides

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Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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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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The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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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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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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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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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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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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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 one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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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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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

40.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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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

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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

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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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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.