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

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The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

2.

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

3.

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

Thackeray, William M.

4.

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

Aristotle

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

6.

A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

7.

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

8.

He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

9.

Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

10.

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

11.

Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

12.

There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

13.

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

14.

A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

16.

Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

17.

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

18.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

19.

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

Euripides

20.

The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

21.

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

22.

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

23.

Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

24.

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.

25.

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

26.

Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

27.

Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

28.

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

Epicurus

29.

A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

30.

Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

31.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

33.

He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

34.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

35.

And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

36.

We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

37.

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

38.

Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

39.

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

Larson, Doug

40.

A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

41.

Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

42.

Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

43.

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

Dickens, Charles

44.

A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

45.

To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

46.

Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

47.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

48.

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

49.

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

Crane, Frank

50.

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