Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Good friends are good for your health.

- Sarason, Irwin

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

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

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

19.

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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

Randolf, G.

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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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 gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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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

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

Gay, John

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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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.

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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

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

Proverb, English

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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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

Homer

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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

Ustinov, Peter

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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.