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

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

Proverb

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

Proverb, English

A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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

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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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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

12.

It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

15.

Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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

Proverb, Jewish

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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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

Bach, Richard

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Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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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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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Bible

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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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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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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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