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

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

Talmud, The

Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

10.

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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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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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Hazlitt, William

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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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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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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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

Terence

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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

O'Malley, Austin

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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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

Proverb, Spanish

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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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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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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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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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

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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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

Schulberg, Budd

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

43.

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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