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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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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

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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

Python, Monty

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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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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Make friends before you need them

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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

33.

Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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

Proverb

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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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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

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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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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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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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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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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

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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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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