Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Young, Brigham

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

Dyke, Henry Van

It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

10.

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

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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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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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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. 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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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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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Saying, Hasidic

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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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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

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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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

30.

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

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The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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

Mermet, Claude

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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 good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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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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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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

Jerome, St.

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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Schulberg, Budd

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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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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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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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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