Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

- Brown, John Mason

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

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

Augustine, St.

Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

10.

Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

11.

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

Proverb, English

12.

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

Uris, Leon

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

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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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

Tate, Nahum

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

22.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

32.

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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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

40.

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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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Aristotle

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.