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

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Proverb, Russian

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

May I always be worth of my friends.

Make friends before you need them

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

Euripides

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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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

Holz, Julie

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Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Crane, Frank

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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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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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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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A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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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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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

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Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

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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.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

31.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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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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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

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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.