Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

- Proverb, Russian

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Hubbard, Elbert

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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

A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

10.

Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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

Bourne, Randolph S.

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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

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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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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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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

21.

Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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

Thackeray, William M.

24.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

34.

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

35.

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

36.

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

38.

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

Proverb, Indian

39.

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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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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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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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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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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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