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

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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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

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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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

Proverb, Russian

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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

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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

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

Auden, W. H.

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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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

Sallust

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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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

Proverb, Arabian

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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