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

Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

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

Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

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

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

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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Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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

Gay, John

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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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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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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Make friends before you need them

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

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

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

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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

Euripides

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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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

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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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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

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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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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Proverb, Indian

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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.

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall