Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

- Gentry, David Tyson

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Thoreau, Henry David

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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

Storey, David

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

Python, Monty

Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Hazlitt, William

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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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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

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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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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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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

Seneca

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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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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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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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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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

Proverb

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

Proverb, Russian

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Gibran, Kahlil

40.

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 one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo