Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- O'Malley, Austin

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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

Python, Monty

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

Terence

In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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

Proverb, Sicilian

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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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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

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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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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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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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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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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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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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

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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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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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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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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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.