Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Howe, Edgar Watson

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Crane, Frank

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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

Gay, John

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

Hazlip, E.R.

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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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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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.

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Jerome, St.

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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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

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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

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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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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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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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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Addison, Joseph

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Budgell, Eustace

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