Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

- La Fontaine, Jean De

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Mermet, Claude

There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Proverb, English

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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Rothschild, William E.

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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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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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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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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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

21.

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

22.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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

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

Proverb

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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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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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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Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Proverb, English

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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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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

43.

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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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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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord