Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

- Hazlitt, William

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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

Seneca

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

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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

Proverb, Indian

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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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 there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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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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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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

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The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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

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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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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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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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

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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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