Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

- Boswell, James

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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

Thackeray, William M.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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

11.

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

12.

It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

13.

Make friends before you need them

14.

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

Woolf, Virginia

15.

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

16.

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

Aristotle

17.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

18.

Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

19.

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

20.

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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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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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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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

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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

25.

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

28.

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

29.

Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

30.

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

31.

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

Bible

33.

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

34.

Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

36.

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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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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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

39.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

43.

Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.