Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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

Hazlitt, William

A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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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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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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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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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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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Crane, Frank

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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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.

26.

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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

Proverb, Russian

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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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

Swift, Jonathan

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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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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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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

Python, Monty