Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

- Dyke, Henry Van

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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

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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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Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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

Proverb, Sicilian

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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, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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

Aristotle

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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

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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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

Python, Monty

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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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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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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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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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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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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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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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