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

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.

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

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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

11.

Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

12.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

13.

Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

14.

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

15.

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

16.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

17.

Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

18.

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

Homer

19.

To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

20.

I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

21.

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

O'Malley, Austin

22.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

25.

In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

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

27.

Make friends before you need them

28.

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

29.

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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Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

32.

If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

33.

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

34.

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

Rothschild, William E.

35.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

36.

Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

40.

You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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

42.

Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

43.

Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

44.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Crane, Frank

48.

With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

49.

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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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