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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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

Gibran, Kahlil

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

10.

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

11.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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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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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

24.

The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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

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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

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

34.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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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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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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

Budgell, Eustace

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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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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 Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

42.

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

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Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

47.

We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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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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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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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