Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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

Mermet, Claude

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

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

Toast, Irish

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

11.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

12.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Randolf, G.

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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

15.

Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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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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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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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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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

20.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

22.

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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

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A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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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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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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

Proverb

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

Storey, David

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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

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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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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len