Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

Make friends before you need them

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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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 most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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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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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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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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

Aristotle

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Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

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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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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

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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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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

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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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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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine