Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Proverb, English

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Blake, William

Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

FeNelon, Francois

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

10.

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

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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

12.

In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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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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Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

17.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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

Woolf, Virginia

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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Crane, Frank

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Storey, David

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Proverb

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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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Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

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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

41.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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

Proverb

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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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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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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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

Franklin, Benjamin