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

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

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

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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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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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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

Proverb

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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Randolf, G.

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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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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Blake, William

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

FeNelon, Francois

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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

Euripides

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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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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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Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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