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

Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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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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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

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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Crane, Frank

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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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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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

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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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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

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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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To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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

Homer

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Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome