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

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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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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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

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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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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Saying, Hasidic

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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

21.

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

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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Blake, William

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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

Bible

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

Joubert, Joseph

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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

35.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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

Augustine, St.

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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...