Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Woolf, Virginia

Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Storey, David

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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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

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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Holz, Julie

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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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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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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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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.

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Auden, W. H.

37.

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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

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A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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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 one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.