Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Proverb, English

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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

Bukowski, Charles

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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.

If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Proverb

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

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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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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Euripides

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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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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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Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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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

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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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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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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

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Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

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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