Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

- Winchell, Walter

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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

Lamb, Charles

A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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

Seneca

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

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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

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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

Crane, Frank

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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

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

Hazlitt, William

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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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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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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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Breton, Nicholas

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

Epicurus

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

Proverb

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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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 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 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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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle