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

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

Make friends before you need them

Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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

10.

Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

11.

Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Hazlip, E.R.

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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

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Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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

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

Proverb, Russian

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Walker, Alice

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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

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

Python, Monty

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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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.

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

Bach, Richard

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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 precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord