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

I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

... 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

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

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

Rothschild, William E.

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

Fuller, Thomas

Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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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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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

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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Homer

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

Hazlip, E.R.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Ovid

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

32.

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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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.

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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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

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

Bible

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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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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Proverb, Sicilian

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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil