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

Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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

And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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

10.

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

Thackeray, William M.

11.

What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

12.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

14.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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

Seneca

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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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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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

Aristotle

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

30.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

33.

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

34.

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

Proverb, Russian

35.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Proverb, English

37.

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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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

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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

45.

... 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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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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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.