Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

- Sallust

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

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

Bourne, Randolph S.

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Digest, Readers

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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Make friends before you need them

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

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The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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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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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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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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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Crane, Frank

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Hazlip, E.R.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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

Proverb

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

Chambers, Oswald

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Swift, Jonathan

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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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

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

Quarles, Francis

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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John