Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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

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

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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

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

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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

10.

If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

11.

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

Fuller, Thomas

12.

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

13.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

14.

I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

15.

Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

16.

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

Pythagoras

17.

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

18.

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

19.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

20.

Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

23.

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

24.

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

25.

To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

26.

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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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

28.

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

32.

The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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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

35.

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

Breton, Nicholas

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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

38.

You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

39.

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

41.

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

Toast, Irish

42.

You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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

Aristotle

44.

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

48.

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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

Proverb, Russian

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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William