Motivational Quotes

Friendship

Being friendless taught me how to be a friend. Funny how that works.

- Colleen Wainwright

Best Quotes about Friendship

Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.

Franklin P. Jones

You can forget a lot of things, but you cannot forget a womanÆs name and claim to love her.

Real Live Preacher

To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship.

Sallust

I've learned that all a person has in life is family and friends. If you lose those, you have nothing, so friends are to be treasured more than anything else in the world.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Dale Carnegie

ItÆs the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter.

Marlene Dietrich

Friends have all things in common.

Plato

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.

Colette

We are advertis'd by our loving friends.

William Shakespeare

10.

A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.

Arthur Brisbane

11.

It's a lot like nature. You only have as many animals as the ecosystem can support and you only have as many friends as you can tolerate the bitching of.

Randy K. Milholland

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When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.

Japanese Proverb

13.

Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.

Georgia O'Keeffe

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Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.

Madame de Tencin

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Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.

Thomas Fuller

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My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.

Dame Edna Everage

17.

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

Saint Jerome

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I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.

Oscar Wilde

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Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

Cicero

20.

A good friend of my son's is a son to me.

Lois McMaster Bujold

21.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

22.

Have no friends not equal to yourself.

Confucius

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True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Joseph Addison

24.

Being friendless taught me how to be a friend. Funny how that works.

Colleen Wainwright

25.

The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.

Pierre Charron

26.

Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.

Czech Proverb

27.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

Jane Austen

28.

Sometimes the measure of friendship isn't your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for your own mistakes.

Randy K. Milholland

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He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.

Ali ibn-Abi-Talib

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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

George Washington

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I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

Walt Whitman

32.

You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust.

David Shore

33.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Aristotle

34.

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

Publilius Syrus

35.

Adversity does teach who your real friends are.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Samuel Johnson

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All people want is someone to listen.

Hugh Elliott

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We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.

Thucydides

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The only thing that lasts longer than a friend's love is the stupidity that keeps us from knowing any better.

Randy K. Milholland

40.

Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.

Thomas Jones

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There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

Rebecca West

42.

Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.

Jay Leno

43.

There isnÆt much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you arenÆt really living without it.

Real Live Preacher

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You donÆt get to pick your own nickname. TheyÆve gotta give you one. ItÆs like weÆre all tryinÆ to make pets out of each other and weÆre not comfortable unless we get to name æem.

Laura Moncur

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The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.

Cicero

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Friends, in my experience, are like ladies'fashions. They come and go with the seasons, and are rarely of such stout stuff as bears repeated wearing.

Stephanie Barron

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Friendship is being there when someone's feeling low and not being afraid to kick them.

Randy K. Milholland

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Friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.