Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- La Fontaine, Jean De

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Randolf, G.

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

White, Somers

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

Talmud, The

Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

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

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

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

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

11.

A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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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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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wycherley, William

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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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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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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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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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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

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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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.

31.

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

Proverb, Russian

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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Hitopadesa

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

Proverb, Jewish

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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

Swift, Jonathan

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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. 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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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De