Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

- Barrymore, Ethel

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Augustine, St.

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

Proverb, Chinese

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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

Franklin, Benjamin

It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

Make friends before you need them

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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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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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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Terence

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

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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 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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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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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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

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

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

Hazlip, E.R.

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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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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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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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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Holz, Julie

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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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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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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason