Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Plautus, Titus Maccius

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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

Python, Monty

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

A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

16.

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

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Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

18.

You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

19.

An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

23.

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

Piper, E. K.

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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

Crane, Frank

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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

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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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

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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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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 sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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

Proverb, Indian

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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.

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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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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish