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

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

Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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

Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Proverb, Arabian

If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

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

Proverb, English

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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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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Proverb, Indian

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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.

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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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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 who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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

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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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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

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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.

28.

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Woolf, Virginia

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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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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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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

44.

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

Proverb

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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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

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

Proverb

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.