Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Darwin, Charles R.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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.

A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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

Epicurus

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Make friends before you need them

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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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

Proverb

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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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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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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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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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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

Fuller, Thomas