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.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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

For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

10.

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

11.

Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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

Thackeray, William M.

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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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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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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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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Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

32.

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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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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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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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Terence

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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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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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Bible