Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Bourne, Randolph S.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Mizner, Wilson

Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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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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 difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. 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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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

29.

We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Terence

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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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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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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

39.

Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

40.

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Proverb, Russian

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Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

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

Uris, Leon

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Bible

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