Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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.

Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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

Terence

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Aristotle

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

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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

Billings, Josh

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

O'Malley, Austin

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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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

Uris, Leon

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

Santayana, George

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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

Schulberg, Budd

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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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Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

29.

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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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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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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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb, Spanish

35.

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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

Proverb, Russian

38.

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

50.

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