Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Bible

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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

Holz, Julie

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

10.

The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

11.

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

Walker, Alice

12.

Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

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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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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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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Randolf, G.

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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

Bible

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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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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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

31.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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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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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

35.

He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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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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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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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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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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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