Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- FeNelon, Francois

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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.

There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Crane, Frank

Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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

Toast, Irish

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

Walker, Alice

10.

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

11.

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

Santayana, George

12.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

13.

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

14.

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

Python, Monty

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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

17.

A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

18.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

19.

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

21.

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

22.

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

Edwards, Robert C.

23.

Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

24.

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

Proverb, Russian

25.

One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

26.

A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

27.

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

Clark, Esther M.

28.

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

29.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

30.

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

Proverb

31.

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

Ovid

32.

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

Euripides

33.

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

34.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

39.

A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

40.

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

41.

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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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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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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

49.

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.

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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas