Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Ustinov, Peter

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Toast, Irish

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

O'Malley, Austin

A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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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 one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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

Hazlitt, William

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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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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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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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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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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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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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Joubert, Joseph

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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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

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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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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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

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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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

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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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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