Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friends are proved by adversity.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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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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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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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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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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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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

Proverb, Arabian

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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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

Storey, David

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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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

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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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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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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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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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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

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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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