Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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

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

Mansfield, Katherine

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

10.

It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

11.

Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

12.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Gay, John

15.

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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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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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

19.

To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

20.

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

21.

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

22.

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

Wycherley, William

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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

24.

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

26.

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

27.

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

28.

A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

29.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

30.

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

31.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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

35.

Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

36.

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

40.

Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

41.

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

Dyke, Henry Van

42.

A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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.

45.

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

47.

Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

48.

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

Bach, Richard

49.

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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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