Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

- Bourne, Randolph S.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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

O'Malley, Austin

Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Larson, Doug

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

10.

A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

11.

Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Hitopadesa

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

Aristotle

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

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

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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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

Bible

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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Bible

20.

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

Godospeed, Edgar

21.

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

Rothschild, William E.

22.

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

23.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

24.

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

25.

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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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

28.

Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

29.

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

Chambers, Oswald

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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

31.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

32.

But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

33.

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

34.

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

35.

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

36.

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

40.

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

Machado, Aaron

41.

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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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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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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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

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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse