Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

- Lund, Thelma J.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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

O'Malley, Austin

Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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

Wycherley, William

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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

14.

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 someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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

Proverb, Sicilian

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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

Proverb, Russian

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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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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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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

Fuller, Thomas

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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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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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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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Lund, Thelma J.

40.

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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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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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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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Sallust

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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

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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

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There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus