Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

- Augustine, St.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Ustinov, Peter

Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

Bible

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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

Dickens, Charles

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

27.

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Proverb, Sicilian

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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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

Holz, Julie

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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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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Ovid

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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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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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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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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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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 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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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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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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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas