Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

- Proverb, Jewish

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Larson, Doug

10.

Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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

Saying, Hasidic

12.

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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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

14.

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

15.

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

Proverb, Russian

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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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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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

24.

It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

30.

There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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 lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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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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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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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

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A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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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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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.