Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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

Bennett, Arnold

When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

Mermet, Claude

Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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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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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Wycherley, William

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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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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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

Branagh, Kenneth

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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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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Ebers, George

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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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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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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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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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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

Aristotle

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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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

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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 didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Waugh, Evelyn