Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

- Jerome, St.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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

Proverb, Sicilian

It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

10.

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

Aristotle

11.

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Proverb, Russian

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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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 loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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

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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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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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

Lee, Robert E.

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

Joubert, Joseph

27.

Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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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

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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

33.

There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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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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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Digest, Readers

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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 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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Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.