Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendship is Love without his wings!

- Byron, Lord

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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

Randolf, G.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Epicurus

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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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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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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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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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God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Prentice, George D.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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

Bukowski, Charles

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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Aristotle

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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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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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

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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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