Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Quarles, Francis

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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

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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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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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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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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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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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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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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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May I always be worth of my friends.

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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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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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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Sallust

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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Breton, Nicholas

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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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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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

Mermet, Claude

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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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

Aristotle

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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My friends, there are no friends.