Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Proverb

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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

Bourne, Randolph S.

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

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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

Euripides

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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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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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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.

13.

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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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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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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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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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.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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

Quarles, Francis

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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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.

41.

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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

47.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. 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