Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

- Aretino, Pietro

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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

White, Somers

Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

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

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Johnson, Samuel

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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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

Terence

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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

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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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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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

Holz, Julie

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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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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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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

49.

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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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson