Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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

Toast, Irish

I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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

A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Aristotle

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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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

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

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Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Homer

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Seneca

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The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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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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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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

Saying, Hasidic

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

Powell, John Enoch

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Everybody needs one essential friend.