Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

- Hazlitt, William

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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

Branagh, Kenneth

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

Storey, David

Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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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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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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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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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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

Ebers, George

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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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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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

Wein, Len

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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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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

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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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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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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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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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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Proverb

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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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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.