Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Hazlitt, William

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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

Clark, Esther M.

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

Budgell, Eustace

20.

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

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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 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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Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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

27.

But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

28.

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

29.

Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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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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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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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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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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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.

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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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

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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