Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

- McLaughlin, Mignon

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Machado, Aaron

The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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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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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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

Bukowski, Charles

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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

Addison, Joseph

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Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

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A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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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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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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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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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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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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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

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

Bible

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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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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.