Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Hazlitt, William

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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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

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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.

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Bible

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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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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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With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Randolf, G.

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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.

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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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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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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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

Quarles, Francis

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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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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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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

Aristotle

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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

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Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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

Crane, Frank

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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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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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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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