Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

- Proverb, English

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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

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

Hitopadesa

Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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.

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

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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

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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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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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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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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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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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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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

Proverb, Indian

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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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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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Sallust

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Saying, Hasidic

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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

Crane, Frank

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.