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

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

Hazlip, E.R.

2.

We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

3.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

4.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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

7.

Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

9.

Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

10.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

11.

I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

12.

He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

13.

You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Sallust

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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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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

20.

A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

21.

Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

22.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

23.

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

24.

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

25.

May I always be worth of my friends.

26.

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

Breton, Nicholas

27.

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

Hazlitt, William

28.

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

Fuller, Thomas

29.

We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

30.

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

31.

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

32.

Make friends before you need them

33.

Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

34.

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

35.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

36.

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

37.

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

38.

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

39.

Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

40.

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

41.

It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

42.

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

Machado, Aaron

43.

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

Bukowski, Charles

44.

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

45.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

46.

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

48.

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

Perry, Ralph B.

49.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire