Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Crane, Frank

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

We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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

Breton, Nicholas

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

10.

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

11.

A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

12.

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

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Young, Brigham

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

28.

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Larson, Doug

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

Proverb

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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

Hazlip, E.R.

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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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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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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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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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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo