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 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

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

Toast, Irish

You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Sallust

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

Bach, Richard

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

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

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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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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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Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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

Proverb

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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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Make friends before you need them

31.

A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

32.

Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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

Hazlitt, William

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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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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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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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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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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

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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson