Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

- Euripides

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

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

Bach, Richard

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. 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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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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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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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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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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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

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

Breton, Nicholas

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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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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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.