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

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.

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

Proverb, Jewish

In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Piper, E. K.

Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Hitopadesa

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Homer

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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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 ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Gay, John

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Bible

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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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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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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

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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

Proverb, Russian

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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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

Hazlip, E.R.

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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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

Euripides

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May I always be worth of my friends.