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

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Walker, Alice

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

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

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

Python, Monty

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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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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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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 without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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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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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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Terence

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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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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Proverb

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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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

Tate, Nahum

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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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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Thackeray, William M.

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Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

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Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.