Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Jefferson, Thomas

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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

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

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

How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

10.

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

11.

Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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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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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

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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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

Storey, David

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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Crane, Frank

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

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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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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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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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

Proverb, Jewish

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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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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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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

32.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Branagh, Kenneth

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Ovid

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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

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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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