Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

- Bacon, Francis

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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

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

Holz, Julie

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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

Billings, Josh

We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

10.

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

Seneca

11.

I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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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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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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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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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

34.

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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

Aristotle

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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

43.

Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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 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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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Proverb, Russian

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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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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De