Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Short judgments make long friends.

- Proverb

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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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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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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

Mizner, Wilson

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Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Epicurus

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Hitopadesa

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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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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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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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

Talmud, The

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Make friends before you need them

38.

One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

40.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Piper, E. K.

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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo