Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

- Wein, Len

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Piper, E. K.

Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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

Bible

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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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

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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Bible

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

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To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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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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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Terence

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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

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

O'Malley, Austin

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.