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

Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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

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.

The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Johnson, Samuel

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Winchell, Walter

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

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

Bach, Richard

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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

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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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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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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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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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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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