Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

- Auden, W. H.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Rothschild, William E.

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Euripides

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

Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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

Chambers, Oswald

Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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

Proverb

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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Hazlitt, William

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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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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

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

Proverb, Russian

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

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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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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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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

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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Holz, Julie

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

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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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Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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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

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Gay, John

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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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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Larson, Doug

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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.