Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Pythagoras

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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.

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

Toast, Irish

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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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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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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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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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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.

Notebook

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

Crane, Frank

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

Proverb, Jewish

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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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The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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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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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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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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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

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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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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

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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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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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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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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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

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