Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friends show their love in times of trouble...

- Euripides

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Mizner, Wilson

We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

Waugh, Evelyn

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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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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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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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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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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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

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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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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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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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May I always be worth of my friends.

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

Jerome, St.

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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Talmud, The

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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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

33.

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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

Augustine, St.

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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

41.

To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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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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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George