Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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

Home, Henry

If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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

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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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

Fuller, Thomas

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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Hazlitt, William

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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

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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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

Quarles, Francis

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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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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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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

37.

Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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

Epicurus

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

Young, Brigham

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb