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

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

Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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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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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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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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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Russian

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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Proverb

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

Proverb

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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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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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

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

Sallust

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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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The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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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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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Mermet, Claude

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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.