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

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

Toast, Irish

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

Proverb, Russian

Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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

Homer

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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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 most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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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

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

Wycherley, William

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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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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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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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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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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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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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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Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Walker, Alice

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

Bach, Richard

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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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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.