Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb

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

Gay, John

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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

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

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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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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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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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

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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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God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

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

Augustine, St.

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A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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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

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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.