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

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

Yeats, William Butler

Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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

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

Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Mizner, Wilson

11.

Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

12.

Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

13.

Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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

Lee, Robert E.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

19.

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

20.

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

21.

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

22.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

23.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

26.

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

31.

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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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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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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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

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

Proverb, Arabian

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

43.

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

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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