Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Proverb, Sicilian

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Thackeray, William M.

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Woolf, Virginia

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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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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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Lewis, Joe E.

18.

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

Python, Monty

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

Bukowski, Charles

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Proverb

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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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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

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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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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

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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.