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

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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

These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Toast, Irish

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

Hazlitt, William

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Bach, Richard

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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

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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Terence

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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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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Talmud, The

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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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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

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

Proverb, Arabian

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

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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

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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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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Breton, Nicholas

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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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Make friends before you need them

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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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