Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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

Quarles, Francis

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Perry, Ralph B.

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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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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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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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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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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

Budgell, Eustace

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

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

Crane, Frank

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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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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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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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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

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

Seneca

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

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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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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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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Proverb

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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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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.