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

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Mansfield, Katherine

Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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.

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

Terence

There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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

Hazlip, E.R.

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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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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

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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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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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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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May I always be worth of my friends.

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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Storey, David

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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica 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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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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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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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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

Larson, Doug

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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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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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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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

Rothschild, William E.

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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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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco