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

A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

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

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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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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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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

Ovid

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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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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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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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The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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

Aristotle

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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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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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

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

Machado, Aaron

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

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When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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

Sallust

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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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