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

I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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

Addison, Joseph

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

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

Budgell, Eustace

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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

15.

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

Ustinov, Peter

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Proverb, Sicilian

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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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 friends before you need them

25.

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

Auden, W. H.

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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

31.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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

Epicurus

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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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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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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

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

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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

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

Wein, Len

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]