Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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

Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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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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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

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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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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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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 an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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

Quarles, Francis

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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

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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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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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

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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras