Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

- Owens, Jesse

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Jerome, St.

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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

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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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

Proverb

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Proverb, Russian

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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

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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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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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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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

Sallust

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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

Lee, Robert E.

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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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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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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

Proverb, English

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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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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -