Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

- Iacocca, Lee

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Augustine, St.

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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

Proverb, Jewish

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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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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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We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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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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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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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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

Gay, John

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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.

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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 one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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

Holz, Julie

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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

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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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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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All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius