Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

- Proverb, Indian

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

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

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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

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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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Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

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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 most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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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

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

Crane, Frank

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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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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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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

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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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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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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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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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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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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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