Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Breton, Nicholas

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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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

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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Make friends before you need them

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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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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

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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

Wycherley, William

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

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

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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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