Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Budgell, Eustace

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Budgell, Eustace

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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

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

Home, Henry

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

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

10.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

18.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

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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

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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

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You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

24.

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

29.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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

Seneca

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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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.

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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

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

Terence

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

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

Augustine, St.