Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

In comradeship is danger countered best.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Wein, Len

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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

Python, Monty

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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

O'Malley, Austin

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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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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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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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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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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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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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

Proverb, Russian

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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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

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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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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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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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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De