Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Crane, Frank

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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.

Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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

Proverb, Jewish

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Addison, Joseph

Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

10.

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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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 the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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

Homer

18.

He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

19.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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

Lincoln, Abraham

23.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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 real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

27.

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

Proverb, Russian

28.

It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

29.

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

30.

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

33.

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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The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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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 an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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