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

Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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

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

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Walker, Alice

10.

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

11.

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

12.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

13.

Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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

Bible

16.

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

17.

Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

18.

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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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

20.

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Crane, Frank

23.

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

24.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

25.

We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

26.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

27.

A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

28.

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Crane, Frank

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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

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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Proverb, Russian

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

38.

Make friends before you need them

39.

Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

40.

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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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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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Saying, Hasidic

44.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

45.

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

48.

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 ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence