Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

- Bible

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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

Breton, Nicholas

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

Proverb, Chinese

Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

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

Proverb, Jewish

If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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

10.

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

Homer

11.

A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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

Hazlitt, William

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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

18.

There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

20.

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

22.

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

Aristotle

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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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

25.

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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

Saying, Hasidic

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Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

40.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

41.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Toast, Irish

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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 a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

46.

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.

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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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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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.