Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Proverb

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

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

Hazlip, E.R.

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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

Prentice, George D.

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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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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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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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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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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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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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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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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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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.