Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

- Byron, Lord

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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

If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Terence

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

May I always be worth of my friends.

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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

11.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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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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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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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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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Schulberg, Budd

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Sallust

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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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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Bukowski, Charles

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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

28.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Proverb, Spanish

30.

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

34.

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

36.

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

44.

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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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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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin