Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

- Gracian, Baltasar

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

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

I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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

Python, Monty

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Toast, Irish

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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Bible

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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

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

Young, Brigham

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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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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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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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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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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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

Ovid

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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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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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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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

Proverb, Russian

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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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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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon