Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Cummings, Fr. Jerome

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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

White, Somers

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

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

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Hazlitt, William

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Aristotle

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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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

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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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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

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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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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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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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.

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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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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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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

Proverb, Sicilian

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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

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

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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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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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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. 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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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Friends are proved by adversity.