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

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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

Breton, Nicholas

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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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

Seneca

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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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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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It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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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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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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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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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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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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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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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

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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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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Randolf, G.

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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

35.

Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

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

Larson, Doug

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John