Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

- Aristotle

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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

Holz, Julie

A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

Lamb, Charles

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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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

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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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 die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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

Swift, Jonathan

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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

Euripides

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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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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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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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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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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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

Wein, Len

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]