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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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

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.

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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

Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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

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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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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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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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 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.

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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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

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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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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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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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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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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

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

Larson, Doug

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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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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

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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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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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Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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

Proverb

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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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