Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

- Levinson, Leonard Louis

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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

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

Aristotle

Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

10.

Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

11.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Storey, David

13.

Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

14.

Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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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

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

Gay, John

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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

18.

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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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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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

25.

A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

29.

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

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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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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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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 friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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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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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Seneca

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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

44.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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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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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph