Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

- Aristotle

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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

Hazlitt, William

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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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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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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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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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.

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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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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.

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

Proverb, Sicilian

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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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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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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

26.

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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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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Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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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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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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

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But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

34.

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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

Rothschild, William E.

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

39.

If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.