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

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

Hazlitt, William

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

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

Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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

Proverb, Arabian

Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

11.

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

12.

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Saying, Hasidic

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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.

17.

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

21.

Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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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

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Talmud, The

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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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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Bourne, Randolph S.

44.

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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With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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

48.

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John