Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

- Delille, Jacques

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

Make friends before you need them

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Bukowski, Charles

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Hazlitt, William

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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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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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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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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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

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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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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. 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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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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The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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

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

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

Breton, Nicholas

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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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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

38.

One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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

Proverb, Arabian

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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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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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A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.