Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

- Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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

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

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Billings, Josh

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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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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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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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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

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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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

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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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

Terence

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A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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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.

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Quarles, Francis

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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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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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard