Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

- Pythagoras

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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

Talmud, The

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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

O'Malley, Austin

... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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

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

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

Homer

11.

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

13.

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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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Auden, W. H.

16.

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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

Woolf, Virginia

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

20.

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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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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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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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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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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Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

28.

I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

29.

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

30.

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

Rothschild, William E.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

33.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

35.

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

36.

Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

37.

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

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

Billings, Josh

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

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All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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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

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb