Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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

Gay, John

Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Bach, Richard

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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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Make friends before you need them

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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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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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.