Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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

Swift, Jonathan

Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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

God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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

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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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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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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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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

22.

It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

24.

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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

Breton, Nicholas

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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

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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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When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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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.

33.

Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

36.

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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 man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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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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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Wycherley, William

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish