Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Theocritus

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

Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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

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

Powell, John Enoch

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

Toast, Irish

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Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Proverb, Sicilian

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

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

Python, Monty

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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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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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

Aristotle

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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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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Rothschild, William E.

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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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Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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

Breton, Nicholas

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

Sallust

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

49.

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

50.

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