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

The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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

Bible

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

Waugh, Evelyn

10.

Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

11.

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

Proverb, Russian

12.

Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

13.

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

14.

In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

15.

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

16.

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

17.

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

18.

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

Hazlitt, William

19.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

20.

It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

21.

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

Ustinov, Peter

22.

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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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Aristotle

26.

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

27.

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.

28.

Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

29.

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

Proverb, Indian

30.

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

31.

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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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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Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

34.

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

Walker, Alice

35.

We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

36.

Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

37.

Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

38.

Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

39.

A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

40.

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

41.

God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

42.

Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

43.

We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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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.

45.

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

Yeats, William Butler

46.

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

47.

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

48.

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

49.

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

50.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides