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

With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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

If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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

Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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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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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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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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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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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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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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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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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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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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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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

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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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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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In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Piper, E. K.

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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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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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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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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

43.

A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.