Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

- Aristotle

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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

You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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

10.

Make friends before you need them

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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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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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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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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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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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

FeNelon, Francois

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

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Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.