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

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

Johnson, Samuel

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Hitopadesa

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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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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Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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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

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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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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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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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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

25.

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

Python, Monty

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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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Make friends before you need them

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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Toast, Irish

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

Wycherley, William

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur