Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

- Gay, John

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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.

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

Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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

Breton, Nicholas

We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

10.

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

Lamb, Charles

11.

Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

22.

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

24.

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

25.

I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

28.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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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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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Quarles, Francis

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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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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

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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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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.