Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

- Johnson, Samuel

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Proverb

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

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

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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

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

Talmud, The

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

Epicurus

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

Python, Monty

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

Hazlip, E.R.

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Toast, Irish

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

19.

Make friends before you need them

20.

Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

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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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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

Proverb

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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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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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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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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.