Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Epicurus

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.

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

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

Proverb, Sicilian

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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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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

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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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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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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

Hazlitt, William

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Terence

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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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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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

Quarles, Francis

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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Proverb, Arabian

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Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

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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

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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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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo