Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

Make friends before you need them

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

Proverb, English

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

Wein, Len

I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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

Young, Brigham

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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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.

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

20.

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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

Ovid

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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

Saying, Hasidic

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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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

Piper, E. K.

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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

Branagh, Kenneth

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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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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