Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendship is Love without his wings!

- Byron, Lord

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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.

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

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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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

14.

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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

Ovid

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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

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Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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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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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

34.

To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

37.

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

Epicurus

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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

Proverb, Russian

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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Meltzer, Bernard