Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Hazlip, E.R.

To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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.

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

Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Euripides

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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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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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Ruskin, John

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

43.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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

Proverb, Jewish

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian