Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friends are proved by adversity.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

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

Pythagoras

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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

Seneca

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Terence

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Gay, John

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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

21.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

22.

Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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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

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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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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

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

O'Malley, Austin

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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

Crane, Frank

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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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 without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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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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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.