Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

- Aristotle

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Proverb

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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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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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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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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

Gay, John

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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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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Make friends before you need them

21.

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

Chambers, Oswald

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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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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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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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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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

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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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A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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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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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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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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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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

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A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Proverb, Arabian

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank