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

And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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.

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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

Holz, Julie

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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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

Proverb, Sicilian

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A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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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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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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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However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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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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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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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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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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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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

Piper, E. K.

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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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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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.