Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

- Proverb

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Euripides

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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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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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. 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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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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Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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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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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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

Augustine, St.

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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

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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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

29.

Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

White, Somers

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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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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

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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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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 is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.