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

A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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

Breton, Nicholas

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

Proverb, Indian

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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

In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

10.

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

11.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

12.

I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

18.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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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.

22.

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

Bible

23.

It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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

Budgell, Eustace

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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

28.

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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To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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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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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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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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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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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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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

41.

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

Python, Monty

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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

43.

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

44.

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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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

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

Gibran, Kahlil