Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendship is Love without his wings!

- Byron, Lord

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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.

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

From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Holz, Julie

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Crane, Frank

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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Wein, Len

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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Quarles, Francis

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A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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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 friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul