Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

- Brault, Robert

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

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

Pythagoras

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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

Bible

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Storey, David

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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

O'Malley, Austin

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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

18.

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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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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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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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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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.

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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

32.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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

Walker, Alice

35.

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 single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

49.

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish