Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

- Twain, Mark

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

Edwards, Robert C.

Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

10.

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

Toast, Irish

11.

We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

12.

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

13.

Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

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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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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We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

18.

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

19.

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

20.

A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

21.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

22.

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

Proverb

24.

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

25.

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

Crane, Frank

26.

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

27.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

29.

I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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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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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

35.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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 deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

40.

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

41.

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

42.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

44.

Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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.

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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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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil