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

Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

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

Homer

In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Proverb, Russian

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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

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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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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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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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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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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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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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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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

Terence

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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Proverb, English

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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

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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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

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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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You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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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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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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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.