Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Lincoln, Abraham

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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

Hazlitt, William

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.

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

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A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Proverb, Russian

14.

Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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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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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

19.

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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

21.

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

Byron, Lord

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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

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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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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... 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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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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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle