Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Jefferson, Thomas

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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

Billings, Josh

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

Python, Monty

It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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

We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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

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

Talmud, The

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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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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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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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

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

24.

I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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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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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.

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Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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

Winchell, Walter

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

Aristotle

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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Larson, Doug

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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Jerome, St.

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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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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

47.

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

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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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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil