Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Ebers, George

Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

10.

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

11.

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

12.

The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

13.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Theocritus

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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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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

28.

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

Seneca

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

Winchell, Walter

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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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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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

Proverb, Arabian

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

43.

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

44.

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.