Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Ovid

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Euripides

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

Swift, Jonathan

You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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

Holz, Julie

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

Godospeed, Edgar

Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Machado, Aaron

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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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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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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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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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.

39.

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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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 one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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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

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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel