Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

- Hazlitt, William

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

10.

In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

12.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

13.

A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

14.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

15.

Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

16.

To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

20.

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

Epicurus

21.

Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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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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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

24.

How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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

26.

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

27.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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

Toast, Irish

29.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

31.

Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

35.

Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

39.

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

43.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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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

45.

A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

47.

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

Talmud, The

48.

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

49.

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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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian