Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

- Hazlitt, William

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Aristotle

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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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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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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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

White, Somers

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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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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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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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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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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

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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia