Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

- La Fontaine, Jean De

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Seneca

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.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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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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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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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

Epicurus

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

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Aristotle

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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Proverb

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The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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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 genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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

Holz, Julie

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von