Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

- Walpole, Horace

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Proverb

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Walpole, Horace

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

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

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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

Breton, Nicholas

11.

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Seneca

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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Proverb, Russian

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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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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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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

Proverb

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

31.

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Addison, Joseph

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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

38.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

43.

Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

44.

The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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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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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama