Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

- Peter, Laurence J.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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.

A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mermet, Claude

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

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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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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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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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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Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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

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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Python, Monty

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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

Proverb

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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

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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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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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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric