Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

- Hubbard, Elbert

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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

If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Hazlip, E.R.

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.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Euripides

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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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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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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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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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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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

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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Proverb, Jewish

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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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

Proverb, Jewish

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