Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Maugham, W. Somerset

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Theocritus

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Waugh, Evelyn

Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Branagh, Kenneth

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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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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

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

Aristotle

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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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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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

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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

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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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

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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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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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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.