Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Hazlip, E.R.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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

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

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

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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

Jefferson, Thomas

10.

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

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The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

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

Ovid

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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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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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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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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

19.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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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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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Epicurus

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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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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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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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

Augustine, St.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Proverb, Sicilian