Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Sallust

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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.

You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

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

Proverb, Russian

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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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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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Ovid

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Hazlip, E.R.

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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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 is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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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 man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

37.

It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

38.

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

Proverb, Russian

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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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

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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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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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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.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Joubert, Joseph