Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Gibran, Kahlil

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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

Proverb, Arabian

Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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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 always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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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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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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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Branagh, Kenneth

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

Augustine, St.

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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

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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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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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

Gay, John

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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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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Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

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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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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Your friend is your needs answered.