Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

- Homer

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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.

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

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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

Watson, Thomas J.

Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

11.

A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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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

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Proverb, English

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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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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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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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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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

29.

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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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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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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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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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

37.

You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Euripides

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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

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Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

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

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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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