Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

- Brookner, Anita

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Swift, Jonathan

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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

Terence

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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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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Schulberg, Budd

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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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

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Aristotle

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

Bourne, Randolph S.

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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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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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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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

Thackeray, William M.

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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.