Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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

Proverb, Russian

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Jerome, St.

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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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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 a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Bible

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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

Hazlip, E.R.

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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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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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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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

Rothschild, William E.

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

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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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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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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

Seneca

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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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Make friends before you need them

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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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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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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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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De