Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

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

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

10.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

12.

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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

Hazlitt, William

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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 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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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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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

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

Aristotle

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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Franklin, Benjamin

25.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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

27.

Make friends before you need them

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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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Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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

Bible

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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

Proverb

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Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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

Pythagoras

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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

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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.

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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel