Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friends are proved by adversity.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Hazlitt, William

To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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

Ovid

Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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

Storey, David

10.

A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

11.

Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

16.

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

Crane, Frank

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

Terence

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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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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

20.

However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

23.

Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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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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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

31.

A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Uris, Leon

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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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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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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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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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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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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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius