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

As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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

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

The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Sallust

And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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

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

Proverb

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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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

Hazlip, E.R.

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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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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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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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 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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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

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Proverb

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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

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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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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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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.

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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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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