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

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.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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

Euripides

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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

Bach, Richard

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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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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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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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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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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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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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

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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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

35.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Proverb, Arabian

39.

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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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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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

47.

It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert