Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

- Weldon, Fay

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

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

Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Auden, W. H.

11.

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

Ustinov, Peter

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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

16.

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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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

18.

A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Larson, Doug

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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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

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

Jerome, St.

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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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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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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

Proverb, English

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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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.

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Bach, Richard

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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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