Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

- Waugh, Evelyn

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Terence

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

White, Somers

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

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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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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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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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 most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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

Mermet, Claude

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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

Randolf, G.

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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

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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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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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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

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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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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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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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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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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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

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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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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