Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

- Augustine, St.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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

Saying, Hasidic

In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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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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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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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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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Euripides

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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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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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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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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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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

34.

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

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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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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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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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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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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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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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

Crane, Frank

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.