Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Aristotle

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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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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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

14.

Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

16.

A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

18.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

20.

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

28.

Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

32.

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

33.

These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

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A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

38.

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

Holz, Julie

39.

God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

41.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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