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

Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Euripides

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

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

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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

Proverb, English

Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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

Walker, Alice

10.

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

11.

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

12.

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

Aristotle

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

16.

If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

17.

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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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

19.

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

21.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

26.

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

27.

Make friends before you need them

28.

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

Bible

29.

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

30.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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

32.

God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

34.

Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

35.

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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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

42.

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

44.

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

Bible

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

48.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

49.

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

Proverb, Russian

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

Addison, Joseph