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

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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

Mermet, Claude

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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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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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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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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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Epicurus

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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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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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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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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

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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Jewish

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Proverb, Indian

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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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

Lamb, Charles

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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

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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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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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.