Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

- Euripides

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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

Richter, Jean Paul

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

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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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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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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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

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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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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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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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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

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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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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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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

32.

Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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

Seneca

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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

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

Talmud, The

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

Bible

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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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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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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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

Python, Monty

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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy