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

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

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

Ustinov, Peter

As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

10.

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

Tate, Nahum

11.

In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

12.

It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

13.

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

14.

The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

20.

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

Proverb

21.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

22.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

24.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

25.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

26.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

27.

However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

28.

A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

29.

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

30.

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

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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

32.

A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Gay, John

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

39.

To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

40.

You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

41.

Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

42.

Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

45.

That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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