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

Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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

Seneca

A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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

Breton, Nicholas

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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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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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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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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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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 friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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

Storey, David

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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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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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.