Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

We die as often as we lose a friend.

- Syrus, Publilius

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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

Epicurus

In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

11.

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

13.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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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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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

20.

You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

21.

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

22.

Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

23.

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

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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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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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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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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.

34.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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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

40.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

47.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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