Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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.

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

Budgell, Eustace

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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

Proverb, Sicilian

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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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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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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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 loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

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You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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

Prentice, George D.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Wycherley, William

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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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

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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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

Aristotle

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

Proverb, Indian

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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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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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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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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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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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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David