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

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

Bach, Richard

Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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

Proverb, Indian

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

10.

The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

11.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

12.

In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

13.

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

15.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

18.

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

Saying, Hasidic

19.

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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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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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

22.

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

23.

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

Jerome, St.

24.

Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

25.

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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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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

Tate, Nahum

28.

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

29.

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

Bukowski, Charles

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

32.

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

Lee, Robert E.

33.

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

34.

A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

35.

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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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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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Theocritus

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

41.

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

42.

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

Proverb, English

43.

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

Joubert, Joseph

44.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

45.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.