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 sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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

Terence

Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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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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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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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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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

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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

Bach, Richard

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

Barrymore, Ethel

19.

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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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Swift, Jonathan

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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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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.

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

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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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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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

Toast, Irish