Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

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

Ovid

The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

10.

In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

11.

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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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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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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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Proverb, Russian

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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

27.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

29.

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

30.

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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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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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 value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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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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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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There is no friend as loyal as a book