Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Jerome, St.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

11.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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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

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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Woolf, Virginia

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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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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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

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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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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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

Holz, Julie

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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

33.

In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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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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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Crane, Frank

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.