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

1.

Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

2.

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

Clark, Esther M.

3.

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

Mizner, Wilson

4.

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

6.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

8.

What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

9.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

10.

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

Proverb, English

11.

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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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Addison, Joseph

14.

You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

15.

Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

16.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

17.

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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

Larson, Doug

19.

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

Prentice, George D.

20.

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

Edwards, Robert C.

21.

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

22.

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

24.

Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

25.

We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

26.

How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

27.

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

28.

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

Aristotle

29.

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

30.

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

31.

You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

32.

Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

33.

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

34.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

35.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

36.

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

37.

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

38.

Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

40.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

41.

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

Toast, Irish

42.

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

43.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

44.

But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

45.

To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

46.

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

47.

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

49.

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

50.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.