Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Quarles, Francis

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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

Pythagoras

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

10.

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

11.

Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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Make friends before you need them

15.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

16.

Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

18.

A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bach, Richard

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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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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.

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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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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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

33.

Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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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

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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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

Camus, Albert

42.

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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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

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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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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter