Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- O'Malley, Austin

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

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

Epicurus

The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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 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

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

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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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

Mermet, Claude

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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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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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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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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

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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

Proverb, English

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

Epicurus

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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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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

33.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Aristotle

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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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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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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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