Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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

Hazlip, E.R.

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

Pepys, Samuel

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

A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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.

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

Digest, Readers

... 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

10.

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

11.

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

12.

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

13.

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

14.

Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

15.

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

16.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

17.

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

Schulberg, Budd

18.

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

19.

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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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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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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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

24.

I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

25.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

26.

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

27.

If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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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

29.

I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

30.

Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

34.

Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

35.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

36.

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

38.

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

Bukowski, Charles

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

40.

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

41.

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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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

43.

There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

44.

A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

45.

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

46.

A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

47.

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

48.

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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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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

O'Malley, Austin