Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friends are proved by adversity.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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

Crane, Frank

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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

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

Proverb

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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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

Proverb, Russian

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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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

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

Joubert, Joseph

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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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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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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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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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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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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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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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Bible

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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

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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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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