Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Wycherley, William

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Proverb, Arabian

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

10.

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

11.

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

Larson, Doug

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

15.

All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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

Swift, Jonathan

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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

24.

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Randolf, G.

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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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

Crane, Frank

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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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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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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

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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

Holz, Julie

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Bible

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

Mermet, Claude

41.

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

42.

Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

43.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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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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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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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

50.

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.