Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Wilson, Woodrow T.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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

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

Proverb

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

Theocritus

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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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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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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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 a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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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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Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

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

Bible

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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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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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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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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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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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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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.