Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

- Maugham, W. Somerset

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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

Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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

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

Digest, Readers

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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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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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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

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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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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

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

Bible

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

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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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

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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

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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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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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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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Mermet, Claude

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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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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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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.