Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

- Gracian, Baltasar

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Homer

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

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

Thoreau, Henry David

In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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

To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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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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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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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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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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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 gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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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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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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

White, Somers

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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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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

33.

I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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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 greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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

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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Yeats, William Butler

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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Hubbard, Elbert