Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

- Butler, Samuel

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Proverb, Russian

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.

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

Uris, Leon

He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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

To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bennett, Arnold

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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Billings, Josh

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Proverb

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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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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.

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Make friends before you need them

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Crane, Frank

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

Crane, Frank

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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

Proverb, Arabian

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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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

Tate, Nahum

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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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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Seneca

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Jerome, St.

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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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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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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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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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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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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.