Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Rothschild, William E.

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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

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

Dyke, Henry Van

A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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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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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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.

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Bach, Richard

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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Proverb

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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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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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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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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

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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.

33.

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

Proverb, English

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Holz, Julie

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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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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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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

45.

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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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.