Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Proverb

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

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

Toast, Irish

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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

Schulberg, Budd

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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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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

O'Malley, Austin

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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Proverb

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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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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

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

Billings, Josh

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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

40.

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

Hitopadesa

41.

A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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

Terence

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Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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

Sallust

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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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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