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

Washington, George

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

Mermet, Claude

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Schulberg, Budd

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

Hitopadesa

Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

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

Proverb

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Digest, Readers

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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.

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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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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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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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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

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Randolf, G.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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... 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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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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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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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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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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Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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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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