Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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

FeNelon, Francois

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

Addison, Joseph

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.

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

Proverb, Sicilian

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

Bach, Richard

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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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Sallust

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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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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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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

19.

Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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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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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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

Bourne, Randolph S.

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Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Proverb, English

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A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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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

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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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

Bible

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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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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.