Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

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Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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

Rothschild, William E.

Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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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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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Breton, Nicholas

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

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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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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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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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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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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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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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

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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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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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