Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Epicurus

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

Randolf, G.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bach, Richard

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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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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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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

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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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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Budgell, Eustace

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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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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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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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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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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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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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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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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The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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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