Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

- Homer

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

10.

A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

11.

A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

12.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

13.

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

14.

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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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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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

17.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

18.

A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

19.

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

21.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

22.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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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

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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

25.

Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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

Schulberg, Budd

28.

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

29.

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

30.

If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

31.

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

32.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

37.

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

Proverb, English

38.

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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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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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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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.

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