Motivational Quotes

Friendship

To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship.

- Sallust

Best Quotes about Friendship

Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.

Madame de Tencin

You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust.

David Shore

Friends, in my experience, are like ladies'fashions. They come and go with the seasons, and are rarely of such stout stuff as bears repeated wearing.

Stephanie Barron

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.

Cicero

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.

Ali ibn-Abi-Talib

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Samuel Johnson

Friends have all things in common.

Plato

My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.

Dame Edna Everage

10.

A good friend of my son's is a son to me.

Lois McMaster Bujold

11.

I've learned that all a person has in life is family and friends. If you lose those, you have nothing, so friends are to be treasured more than anything else in the world.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

12.

Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Elbert Hubbard

13.

To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship.

Sallust

14.

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

Walt Whitman

15.

True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Joseph Addison

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If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

George Washington

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Friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.

David Nicholls

19.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

Jane Austen

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I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.

Oscar Wilde

21.

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.

Colette

22.

ItÆs the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter.

Marlene Dietrich

23.

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

Rebecca West

24.

It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.

Lawana Blackwell

25.

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

26.

The only thing that lasts longer than a friend's love is the stupidity that keeps us from knowing any better.

Randy K. Milholland

27.

You can forget a lot of things, but you cannot forget a womanÆs name and claim to love her.

Real Live Preacher

28.

It's a lot like nature. You only have as many animals as the ecosystem can support and you only have as many friends as you can tolerate the bitching of.

Randy K. Milholland

29.

Being friendless taught me how to be a friend. Funny how that works.

Colleen Wainwright

30.

Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

Cicero

31.

Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.

Czech Proverb

32.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Aristotle

33.

There is nothing like the razor sharp tongue of a good friend to cut through the lies we tell ourselves.

Laura Moncur

34.

Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.

Georgia O'Keeffe

35.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Dale Carnegie

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When someone allows you to bear his burdens, you have found deep friendship.

Real Live Preacher

37.

You donÆt get to pick your own nickname. TheyÆve gotta give you one. ItÆs like weÆre all tryinÆ to make pets out of each other and weÆre not comfortable unless we get to name æem.

Laura Moncur

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Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.

Thomas Jones

39.

All people want is someone to listen.

Hugh Elliott

40.

We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.

Thucydides

41.

We are advertis'd by our loving friends.

William Shakespeare

42.

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.

John Churton Collins

43.

The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.

Pierre Charron

44.

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

Saint Jerome

45.

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. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Sometimes the measure of friendship isn't your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for your own mistakes.

Randy K. Milholland

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There isnÆt much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you arenÆt really living without it.

Real Live Preacher

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Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.

Thomas Fuller

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Friendship is being there when someone's feeling low and not being afraid to kick them.

Randy K. Milholland

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Adversity does teach who your real friends are.

Lois McMaster Bujold