Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

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

Bukowski, Charles

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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

10.

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

11.

Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

12.

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

15.

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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

Proverb, Indian

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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

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

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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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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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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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

Hazlitt, William

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.