Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Smith, Logan Pearsall

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

10.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

11.

A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

12.

God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

13.

We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

14.

One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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

Ovid

17.

The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

18.

Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

19.

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

20.

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.

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

23.

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

24.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

25.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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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

28.

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

30.

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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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

34.

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

Quarles, Francis

35.

These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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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 a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

39.

A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

40.

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

41.

Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

43.

But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

44.

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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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.

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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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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall