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

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Toast, Irish

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

16.

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

17.

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

Lee, Robert E.

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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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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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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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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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

Euripides

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

Ebers, George

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

Proverb, Russian

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

28.

The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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

Addison, Joseph

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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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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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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

35.

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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

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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Bible

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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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

43.

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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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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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish