Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

- Jerome, St.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Saying, Hasidic

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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

Python, Monty

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

Proverb

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

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

10.

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

11.

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

O'Malley, Austin

12.

Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

13.

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

Piper, E. K.

14.

The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

15.

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

19.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

21.

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

22.

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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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 gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

25.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Toast, Irish

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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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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

31.

From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

32.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

33.

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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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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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

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But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

37.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

40.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

44.

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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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

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

47.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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.

50.

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord