Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

A good friend is my nearest relation.

- Fuller, Thomas

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Aristotle

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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.

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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

It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Bible

Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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

Sallust

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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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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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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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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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

19.

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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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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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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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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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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

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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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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Proverb, Russian

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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

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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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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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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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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone