Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Alcott, Louisa May

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

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

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

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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 show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Bach, Richard

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

Proverb, English

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

White, Somers

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

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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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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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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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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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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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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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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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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.