Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

- Gay, John

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

May I always be worth of my friends.

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

10.

A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

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

12.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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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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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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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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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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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

25.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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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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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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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Bible

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We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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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.

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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

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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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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine