Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

- Burleigh, Lord

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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

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

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

Euripides

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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

Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Storey, David

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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Larson, Doug

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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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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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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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

Proverb, English

31.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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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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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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Proverb, Jewish

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

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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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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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

Blake, William

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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.