Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

- Hazlitt, William

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Ebers, George

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

You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

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

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

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

Bukowski, Charles

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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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

Proverb

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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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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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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

Epicurus

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

Lee, Robert E.

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Jerome, St.

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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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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

Crane, Frank

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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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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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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

Hazlitt, William

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Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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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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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De