Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Uris, Leon

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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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

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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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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.

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

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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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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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

Bible

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

Larson, Doug

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

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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

31.

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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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 friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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

Talmud, The

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Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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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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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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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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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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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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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.